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(b)
Ensure that Roma and Sami children have the right to culturally
sensitive education and health-care services in their own language, including for those
Sami children who live outside the Sami homeland;
(c)
Cooperate more closely with the Governments of Sweden and Norway,
inter alia concerning school curricula, teacher training, producing teacher materials
and providing media content for Sami children;
(d)
Take into account the Committee’s general comment No. 11 (2009) on
indigenous children and their rights under the Convention; and
(e)
Ratify ILO Convention No. 169 (1989) concerning Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples in Independent Countries.
G.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
65.
The Committee recommends that the State party, in order to further
strengthen the fulfilment of children's rights, ratify the core United Nations human
rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, namely the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its
Optional Protocol, the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
H.
Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
66.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures
to ensure full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia, by
transmitting them to the Head of State, Supreme Court, Parliament, relevant
ministries and municipal authorities for appropriate consideration and further action.
Dissemination
67.
The Committee further recommends that the fourth periodic report and
written replies submitted by the State party and the related recommendations
(concluding observations) 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, youth groups, professional groups and children, in order to
generate debate and awareness of the Convention, its implementation and monitoring.
I.
Next report
68.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its next combined fifth and
sixth periodic report by 19 July 2017 and to include in it information on the
implementation of the present concluding observations. The Committee draws
attention to its harmonized treaty-specific reporting guidelines adopted on 1 October
2010 (CRC/C/58/Rev.2) and reminds the State party that future reports should be in
compliance with the guidelines and not exceed 60 pages. The Committee urges the
State party to submit its report in accordance with the guidelines. In the event that a
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