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(a) Develop comprehensive policy frameworks for the delivery of sustainable
services to address the complex situation of Roma children and Roma families, including
language, education and culture;
(b) Enhance models for intra-community interventions and campaigns to
address the issues of early marriage and early pregnancy;
(c) Strengthen its efforts to remove discrimination and to continue developing
and implementing - in close collaboration with the Roma community itself - policies and
programmes aimed at ensuring equal access to culturally appropriate services, including
early childhood development and education;
(d) Initiate campaigns, including throughout the media at all levels and regions,
aimed at addressing the negative attitudes towards the Roma in society at large, including
among police and other professionals.
8. Ratification of international human rights instruments
99.
The Committee encourages that the State party ratify: the International 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
International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance;
and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights.
9. Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
100. 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 both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, relevant ministries and
administrative divisions, including those carrying responsibilities at county and commune,
for appropriate consideration and further action.
Dissemination
101. The Committee further recommends that the third and fourth periodic reports and
written replies submitted by the State party and related recommendations (concluding
observations) it adopted be made widely available, including through Internet (but not
exclusively), to the public at large, civil society organizations, youth groups, and children in
order to generate debate and awareness of the Convention, its implementation and
monitoring.
9. Next report
102. The Committee invites the State party to submit its fifth periodic report, in
accordance with article 44 of the Convention, by October 2012. This report should not
exceed 120 pages (see CRC/C/118).