CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4
(b)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography in December 2006; and
(c)
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in December
2009.
5.
The Committee also welcomes the following institutional and policy measures:
(a)
The establishment of a National Council for the Family and Women by
Decree No. 06-421 of 22 November 2006; and
(b)
The generalization process of preschool education initiated by the Ministry of
Education and the pilot programme of early detection and preschool education for children
with a disability which has begun in 14 Wilayas.
6.
The Committee commends the State party for the invitation it extended in March
2010 to seven United Nations special-procedures mandate holders, as well as the invitation
extended to other mechanisms, including the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women
in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
III. Main areas of concerns and recommendations
A.
General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6, of the
Convention)
The Committee’s previous recommendations
7.
The Committee, while welcoming the State party’s efforts to implement the
concluding observations on its previous reports (CRC/C/15/Add.269), notes with regret that
some of the recommendations contained therein have not been fully addressed.
8.
The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address
those recommendations from the concluding observations of the second periodic
report under the Convention that have not been implemented or sufficiently
implemented, particularly those related to interpretative declarations, legislation,
independent monitoring, cooperation with civil society, non-discrimination, corporal
punishment, parental responsibilities, violence against children, children with
disabilities and refugee children. The Committee further urges the State party to
provide adequate follow-up to the recommendations contained in the present
concluding observations.
Interpretative declarations
9.
The Committee notes with concern that the State party has maintained its declaration
on article 14, paragraphs 1 and 2, which amounts to a reservation to the Convention. The
Committee is also concerned that the State party has still not reviewed its declarations on
articles 13, 16 and 17.
10.
The Committee reiterates its recommendation of 2005 (CRC/C/15/Add.269,
para. 11) that the State party should review its interpretative declarations with a view
to withdrawing them, in accordance with the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Plan of
Action of the World Conference on Human Rights.
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