CRC/C/BOL/CO/4 page 22 half of the population affected, do not receive the attention they require in situations of emergency. 88. The Committee recommends that the State party develop a comprehensive policy, provide adequate resources and intense training, including for children, for prevention and effective responses to emergencies required especially with regard to the most vulnerable victims like children and pregnant women. The Committee further recommends that the State party take into account the recommendations of the Committee’s Day of General Discussion 2008 “The right of the child to education in emergency situations”. 9. Ratification of international human rights instruments 89. 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, the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Second Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 90. The Committee encourages the State party to submit its initial reports under the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which were due in July 2005 (Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography) and January 2007 (Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict). 10. Follow-up and dissemination Follow-up 91. 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 Parliament, Courts, relevant ministries and local authorities for appropriate consideration and further action. Dissemination 92. The Committee recommends that the fourth periodic report and written replies submitted by the State party and related recommendations (concluding observations) it adopted be made widely available 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. 11. Next report 93. The Committee invites the State party to submit its combined fifth and sixth periodic reports, by 1 September 2015. This report should not exceed 120 pages (see CRC/C/118).

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