CRC/C/PAN/CO/3-4 22. The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party strengthen public awareness of the Convention aimed at society at large, parents and children, including, but not only, through public communication programmes and campaigns. The Committee also recommends that public officials, especially those in higher positions, set the example by speaking out publicly for child rights as an essential part of human rights and of development, and that the media and journalists collaborate to create a well informed and positive climate on children’s rights. Training 23. The Committee notes that some efforts are being made by the State party and others towards training on human right in general and on children rights, but regrets that these are not systematic or widespread. 24. The Committee strongly recommends that all professionals working for and with children be adequately and systematically trained on children and human rights, in particular law enforcement officials, teachers, health personnel, social workers, professionals and staff working in all forms of alternative care, and journalists. Civil society 25. The Committee welcomes the creation of an observatory for the rights of the child with the participation of civil society, academia and children, noting that the Ombudsman Office serves as the Observatory’s secretariat. It also welcomes the fact that the State party consulted with civil society in the reporting process. However, it is concerned that collaboration with civil society has been curtailed since the National Council on Children and Adolescents was abolished. 26. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that civil society play an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of public policies and programmes, including by occupying a seat in the national coordination body for child rights. It also recommends that the observatory receive appropriate human, technical and financial support from the State party, Child rights and the business sector 27. The Committee notes with appreciation that environmental assessments prior to the approval of investment projects in territory inhabited by indigenous population are mandated by national law and that, in the specific case of the hydroelectric project Chan 75, the State party followed the recommendation by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to conduct such assessment. Nonetheless, the Committee expresses its concern that prior consultation, including with indigenous children, is not being followed in all cases. The Committee also notes with concern that social impact studies of investment projects likely to affect child rights, such as forced displacement and dispossession, contamination and damage to cultural assets and/or traditions, are neither contemplated by the law nor conducted. 28. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Apply without exception the legal obligation to conduct environmental impact assessments of investment projects; (b) Consider including also in the legal framework regulating business activities (Law 41, 2007) the obligation to conduct social impact assessments, particularly relating to the effects on children’s rights; (c) Ensure prior consultation to indigenous people, including children, on investments likely to affect their rights, especially in the cases in which relocation of 5