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exploitation. The Committee is particularly concerned that due to their low socio-economic
status, one third of girls and young women of Vietnamese origin are reportedly sold into
prostitution.
80.
The Committee urges the State party to acknowledge that children of
Vietnamese origin are subject to discrimination and to take all necessary measures to
address their situation and ensure that they have effective access to birth registration,
identity documents, public education and health care services. The Committee also
urges the State party to provide information in its next periodic report on the
measures taken to end discrimination against children of Vietnamese origin and to
prevent sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls belonging to this
community.
H.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
81.
The Committee calls upon the State party to promptly submit its initial reports
on the implementation of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child. It also encourages the State party, in order to further strengthen the
fulfilment of children's rights, to accede to all core human rights instruments,
including the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
their Families and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance.
I.
Cooperation with regional and international bodies
82.
The Committee recommends that the State party cooperate with the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Commission on Women and
Children towards the implementation of the Convention and other human rights
instruments, both in the State party and in other ASEAN member states.
J.
Follow-up and dissemination
83.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures
to ensure that the present recommendations are fully implemented, inter alia, by
transmitting them to the members of the Government, Parliament, Provincial
Councils and other local authorities, when applicable, for appropriate consideration
and further action.
84.
The Committee further recommends that the second periodic report and
written replies submitted by the State party and the related recommendations
(concluding observations) adopted by the Committee 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 and its
implementation.
K.
Next report
85.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its next combined fourth to
sixth reports by 13 May 2018. The Committee draws attention to its Harmonized
Treaty-Specific Reporting Guidelines adopted on 1 October 2010 (CRC/C/58/Rev.2)
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