CRC/C/15/Add.233 page 2 (c) The establishment of the Consejo Nacional de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (National Council for Childhood and Adolescence) (2003); (d) The National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents (Panama 2003-2015); (e) Law No. 38 on domestic violence and children and adolescent mistreatment (f) Law 40 and its amendments concerning the system of juvenile justice; (2001); (g) The enactment of the laws establishing the indigenous comarcas (territorial districts of the indigenous peoples) of the Kuna of Madungandi (1996), the Ngobe-Buglé (1997) and the Kuna of Wargandi (2000). 4. The Committee welcomes the ratification of a number of human rights-related instruments such as the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on children in armed conflict and the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; the ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and (No. 182) the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 in 2000; and the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in 1998. C. Principal areas of concern and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation The Committee’s previous recommendations 5. The Committee notes with satisfaction that various of its concerns expressed and recommendations (CRC/C/15/Add.68 of 24 January 1997) made upon the consideration of the State party’s initial report (CRC/C/8/Add.28) have been addressed through legislative measures and policies. However, recommendations regarding, inter alia, non-discrimination (para. 26), training and education for professionals working with or for children (paras. 27 and 32), child labour (para. 33), sexual abuse and domestic violence (para. 35) and juvenile justice (para. 36) have not been given sufficient follow-up. The Committee notes that those concerns and recommendations are reiterated in the present document. 6. The Committee urges the State party to make every effort to address those recommendations contained in the concluding observations on the initial report that have not yet been implemented and to address the list of concerns contained in the present concluding observations on the second periodic report. Legislation 7. The Committee acknowledges the legislative activities over the past five years (resulting in various laws and/or amendments to existing laws), but is concerned at the lack of a comprehensive legislative policy regarding the implementation of children’s rights. In this regard it welcomes the information that a comprehensive code for children is being drafted. The Committee also regrets that the lack of financial resources hampers the implementation of legislation, in particular the new juvenile penal procedures (1999).