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maintain regular contact with their families, and to review the decision of detention with a
view to its withdrawal;
(f) Adopt a global and national policy in prevention and promotion of alternative
measures to detention such as diversion, probation, counselling, community service or
suspended sentences, wherever possible;
(g) Provide children, both victims and accused, with adequate legal and other
assistance at an early stage of the procedure and throughout the legal proceedings;
(h) establish an independent body for the monitoring of detention conditions and
receiving and processing complaints by children in detention;
(i) Request further technical assistance in the area of juvenile justice and police
training from the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice, which includes UNODC, UNICEF,
OHCHR, and NGOs.
Protection of witnesses and victims of crimes
94.
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure, through adequate legal
provisions and regulations, that all child victims and or witnesses of crimes, e.g. child
victims of abuse, domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, abduction, and
trafficking and witnesses of such crimes, are provided with the protection required by the
Convention and that it take fully into account the United Nations Guidelines on Justice in
Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (annexed to Economic and Social
Council resolution 2005/20 of 22 July 2005).
9. Ratification of international human rights instruments
95.
The Committee expresses regret that the State party has not yet ratified or acceded to
several international human rights instruments of critical importance for the protection of the
rights of children, including those already referred to in these concluding observations on the
minimum age of employment, human trafficking, and refugees.
96.
The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the core United Nations
human rights treaties and their Protocols to which it is not yet a party, namely, the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families, the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, the Optional
Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional
Protocols to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
10.
Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
97.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to
ensure full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia, by transmitting