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languages. The Committee is deeply concerned that the situation is compounded if these
children are girls and Afro-Panamanian adolescents. The Committee is further concerned
that the Convention and its two Optional Protocols have yet to be translated into indigenous
languages.
81.
The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party take all
necessary steps to address and prevent the marginalization and discrimination of
indigenous and Afro-Panamanian girls and boys, that they receive health services and
education adapted to their culture, history and languages, that they enjoy adequate
standard of living. It also recommends that the Convention and its Optional Protocols
be translated into the main indigenous languages. The Committee further
recommends that the State party ratify ILO Convention 169 on indigenous and tribal
peoples in independent countries.
I.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
82.
The Committee takes note of the State party’s commitment, under the
universal periodic review to ratify the core United Nations human rights treaties and
their Optional Protocols to which it is not yet a party, namely, the Optional Protocol
to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families.
J.
Cooperation with regional and international bodies
83.
The Committee recommends that the State party cooperate with the InterAmerican System towards the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and any other Convention, both in the State party and in other Organization of
American States (OAS) member States.
K.
Follow-up and dissemination
84.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures
to ensure that the present recommendations are fully implemented by, inter alia,
transmitting them to the Head of State, the National Assembly, relevant ministries,
the Supreme Court, and to local authorities for appropriate consideration and further
action.
85.
The Committee further recommends that the third and fourth periodic reports
and written replies by the State party and the related recommendations (concluding
observations) 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,
media, youth groups, professional groups and children, in order to generate debate
and awareness of the Convention and its Optional Protocols and of their
implementation and monitoring.
L.
Next report
86.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its next combined fifth and
sixth periodic reports by 10 July 2016 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
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