CRC/C/THA/CO/3-4 (e) The Domestic Violence Victim Protection Act of 2007, (f) The Persons with Disabilities’ Quality of Life Promotion Act of 2007; (g) The National Child and Youth Development Promotion Act of 2007. 5. The Committee notes with appreciation the ratification or accession to the following human rights instruments: (a) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 27 February 2006; (b) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography on 11 January 2006; (c) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 29 July 2008; (d) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on 2 October 2007. 6. The Committee also welcomes and commends the adoption of policies and programmes that promote the rights and well-being of children, including: (a) The National Plan and Policy on the Prevention, Suppression and Combating Domestic and Transnational Trafficking in Children and Women 2012-2016; (b) The National Agenda for Children and Adolescents in 2008; (c) The National Child and Youth Development Plan for 2007-2016. II. Main areas of concern and recommendations A. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6 of the Convention) The Committee’s previous recommendations 7. The Committee, while welcoming the State party’s efforts to implement the concluding observations on the State party’s second periodic report (CRC/C/THA/CO/2), notes with regret that a number of the recommendations contained therein have not been given sufficient follow-up. 8. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations contained in the concluding observations on the second periodic report that have not yet been, or not sufficiently, implemented, including on such issues as data collection, non-discrimination, nationality, protection of privacy, corporal punishment in the home, alternative care, children in prison with their mothers, adolescent health, refugee and asylum-seeking children, children of migrant workers, child labour and juvenile justice. The Committee also urges the State party to provide adequate follow-up to the recommendations contained in the present concluding observations. Reservations 9. The Committee welcomes the withdrawal by the State party of its reservation concerning article 7 of the Convention in December 2010. The Committee regrets, however, that the State party has not withdrawn its reservation concerning article 22. 2

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