CRC/C/15/Add.227 page 13 (c) last resort; Ensure that the detention of juvenile offenders is used only as a measure of (d) Avoid detention of juvenile offenders with children institutionalized for behavioural problems; (e) In Aruba, expedite efforts to create more alternatives to detention for children in conflict with the law. 8. Optional Protocols to the Convention 60. The Committee notes that the State party signed the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 7 September 2000. However, the Committee is concerned that the Optional Protocols have not yet been ratified. 61. The Committee recommends that the State party expedite the ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict. 9. Dissemination of documents 62. In light of article 44, paragraph 6, of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the second periodic report and written replies submitted by the State party be made widely available to the public at large and that the publication of the report be considered, along with the relevant summary records and concluding observations adopted by the Committee. Such a document should be widely distributed in order to generate debate and awareness of the Convention and its implementation and monitoring within the Government, the Parliament and the general public, including concerned NGOs. 10. Next report 63. The Committee expects to receive the third periodic report from the State party, which should include information from all three autonomous entities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and which should not exceed 120 pages (see CRC/C/118), by 6 March 2007, date on which the report is due. -----

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