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9.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
103. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the core United Nations
human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, namely the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(abolition of the death penalty), and the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
10.
Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
104. 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 Head of State, the Supreme Court, Parliament, relevant
ministries and local authorities for appropriate consideration and further action.
Dissemination
105. The Committee further recommends that the second periodic report and
written replies submitted by the State party and the related recommendations
(concluding observations) it adopted 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, its implementation and monitoring.
11.
Next report
106. The Committee invites the State party to submit its combined fifth and sixth
periodic report by 1 October 2015. The Committee draws attention to its harmonized
treaty-specific reporting guidelines adopted on 1 October 2010 (CRC/C/58/Rev.2) and
reminds the State party that future reports should be in compliance with the
guidelines and not exceed 60 pages. The Committee urges the State party to submit its
report in accordance with the reporting guidelines. In the event that a report
exceeding the page limitations is submitted, the State party will be asked to review
and resubmit the report in accordance with the above mentioned guidelines. The
Committee reminds the State party that if it is not in a position to review and
resubmit the report, then translation of the report for purposes of examination by the
treaty body cannot be guaranteed.
107. The Committee also invites the State party to submit an updated core document
in accordance with the requirements of the common core document in the harmonized
guidelines on reporting, approved by the fifth inter-committee meeting of the human
rights treaty bodies in June 2006 (HRI/MC/2006/3). The treaty-specific report and the
common core document together constitute the harmonized reporting obligation
under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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