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(c) Act No. 25974 of 1 December 2004, which created the Historical Reparation
Fund for the Tracing and Restitution of Kidnapped Children and Children Born in
Captivity;
(d) Act No. 26522 of 10 October 2009 on Audiovisual Communication Services and
the creation of the Advisory Council on Audiovisual Communication and Children, as well
as the Observatory on Audiovisual Media Relations with Children.
5. The Committee also notes the following institutional and policy measures:
(a) The creation of the National Commission on Refugees (2006);
(b) The establishment of the Commission for Oversight of the Institutional
Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2006);
(c) The establishment, through Act No. 25724 of 27 December 2002, of the
programme on food and nutrition for children until the age of 14, pregnant women, presons
with disabilities and persons over 70 years in situations of poverty.
6. The Committee welcomes the ratification by the State party of the following
international human rights treaties:
(a) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
involvement of children in armed conflict (in 2002);
(b) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography (in 2003);
(c) Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (in 2004);
(d) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of Their Families (in 2006);
(e) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (in 2006);
(f) International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance (in 2007).
C. 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
7. The Committee welcomes efforts by the State party to implement the concluding
observations on the second periodic report of the State party (CRC/C/70/Add.10).
Nevertheless, it notes with regret that several of the recommendations in the concluding
observations have not been significantly addressed.
8. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address
those recommendations from the concluding observations on its second periodic
report that have not yet been implemented or sufficiently implemented. These include
such issues as the implementation of new laws at the national and provincial levels
(CRC/C/70/Add.10, para. 16), children deprived of a family environment and failure
of distinction between children in need of care and protection and those in conflict
with the law (paras. 41 and 43), adolescent health and well-being (para. 51),
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