CRC/C/MKD/CO/2 (b) Several health programmes initiated in 2010, in particular the Programme for Active Health Protection of Mothers and Children (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia No. 07/2010) and the Programme for Systematic Check-ups of Pupils and Students (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia No. 20/2010); (c) The adoption of the 2009–2012 Action Plan for Prevention and Countering of Sexual Abuse and Paedophilia, addressing the protection and assistance of child victims, and envisaging the establishment of a coordinated system for cooperation among government institutions and between government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); and (d) The establishment in 2005 of the National Commission on the Rights of the Child. 5. The Committee also welcomes the succession to or ratification of the following international and regional instruments during the reporting period: (a) Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography on 17 October 2003; (b) Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 12 January 2004; (c) Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and the European Convention on Nationality on 27 May 2009 and 3 June 2003, respectively; (d) Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption on 23 December 2008; (e) United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its two protocols concerning respectively trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants on 12 January 2005; (f) International Labour Organization Convention No. 29 concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour and Convention No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour on 15 July 2003 and 30 May 2002 respectively; and (g) C. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 6 March 2002. Main areas of concern and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6, of the Convention) The Committee’s previous recommendations 6. The Committee notes that some of its concerns and recommendations made upon the consideration of the State party’s initial report (CRC/C/15/Add.118, 2000) have been addressed. However, it regrets that many of its concerns and recommendations have been insufficiently or only partly addressed. 7. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations of the initial report that have not yet been implemented, including those related to the review of national legislation for compliance with the Convention, birth registration, resources available to the social work centres and the integration of children with disabilities into 2

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