CRC/C/THA/CO/3-4 party consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and its 1967 Optional Protocol, and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Birth registration 43. The Committee welcomes the Civil Registration Act of 2008 which provides late registration as well as numerous regulations, including on issuing registration cards to ethnic groups of highland people and abandoned infants. The Committee, however, is concerned that a considerable number of children, especially children living in poverty, children of indigenous groups and migrants remain unregistered. It also remains concerned that the State party maintains a penalty, however low it might be, for late registration of children. 44. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to ensure birth registration for all children born on its territory especially those who are not registered due to the economic status of their parents, ethnicity and immigration status. It also recommends that the State party carry out public education programmes, including campaigns to provide birth registration to those children already born in the territory of the State party but remain unregistered, as well as remove any monetary penalties for late registrations and take alternative measures to ensure timely registration of new-born children. Protection of privacy 45. While noting the efforts of the State party at increasing awareness of children’s rights in the media, the Committee is concerned that the media does not fully respect the children’s right to privacy in their reporting and that children’s identity can often be established through related information provided by the media such as family names, addresses and photographs especially in sensitive cases of child abuse and exploitation and under the juvenile justice system. 46. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to ensure that children’s right to privacy is respected at all times, especially in the mass media. It recommends that the State party enact legislation to protect the identities of children from being reported in all forms of media and establish effective monitoring mechanisms to ensure compliance. It also recommends that the State party continue sensitizing mass media professionals on children’s rights and promote the involvement of children in decisions and production of children’s programmes. Violence against children, including corporal punishment 47. The Committee is concerned that corporal punishment remains lawful in the home. Moreover, article 1567 of the Civil and Commercial Code states that those with parental authority over children have a right to impose “reasonable” punishment for the purpose of discipline. 48. The Committee reiterates its previous concerns and concluding observations (CRC/C/THA/CO/2, paras. 40 and 41) and encourages the State party to take into account its general comments Nos. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence, and 8 (2006), on the right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment in adopting measures to combat all forms of violence against children. The Committee recommends that the State party: 9