CRC/C/MKD/CO/2
8.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
86.
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
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol and
the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, which the State party has signed; as well as the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
their Families.
9.
Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
87.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures
to ensure that the present recommendations are fully implemented, inter alia, by
transmitting them to the Parliament, relevant ministries, the National Commission on
the Rights of the Child, the Ombudsman and local authorities, when applicable, for
appropriate consideration and further action.
Dissemination
88.
The Committee recommends that the second periodic report and written
replies submitted by the State party and the related concluding observations and
recommendations it adopted be made widely available in the languages of the country,
including (but not exclusively) through the Internet to the public at large, civil society
organizations, the media, youth groups, professional groups and children, in order to
generate debate and awareness of the Convention, its implementation and monitoring.
10.
Next report
89.
The Committee invites the State party to submit the combined third, fourth,
fifth and sixth periodic report by 16 March 2017 (i.e., 18 months before the date
established in the Convention for the submission of the sixth periodic report). This
next report should not exceed 120 pages (see CRC/C/118) and should also include
information on the concrete implementation and impact on children of these
concluding observations and the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child.
90.
The Committee also invites the State party to submit an updated core
document in accordance with the requirements of the common core document in the
harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties,
including guidelines on a common core document and treaty-specific documents,
approved at the Fifth Inter-Committee Meeting of the human rights treaty bodies in
June 2006 (HRI/MC/2006/3).
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