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To take into account the Committee’s recommendations during its Day
of General Discussion in 2007 on “Resources for the Rights of the Child Responsibility of States”.
Data collection
21.
The Committee notes with concern the limited progress made to establish a national,
comprehensive and centralized data collection system covering all areas of the Convention.
The Committee is particularly concerned that data by geographic location, socio-economic
status and groups of vulnerable children as well as data on violence, abuse and exploitation
is completely lacking and that policy makers often use unreliable national data to assess the
situation and to formulate policies to address the problems of children, especially those in
the most vulnerable and disadvantaged situations and among them children with disabilities
and children working in the informal sector.
22.
The Committee encourages the State party to set up a national and
comprehensive system to collect data disaggregated, inter alia, by age, sex, ethnicity,
geographic location and socioeconomic background, on all areas of the Convention in
order to facilitate the analysis of progress achieved in the realization of child rights
and to help design policies and programmes to implement the Convention. The State
party should ensure that the information collected contains up-to-date data on
children in vulnerable situations, including girls, and children living with disabilities,
in poverty and children victims of abuse and exploitation. The Committee further
urges the State party to develop and implement a policy to protect the privacy of
children who have been registered in all national databases.
Dissemination and awareness-raising
23.
The Committee notes with concern that initiatives undertaken to disseminate and
raise awareness about the Convention, including among parents, caregivers, teachers, youth
workers and children have remained limited. In particular, the Committee regrets the weak
implementation of the National Communication Plan for the Promotion of Child Rights
(2009-2011) developed by the Delegate Ministry in charge of Family and the Status of
Women.
24.
The Committee urges the State party to take more active measures to
systematically disseminate and promote the Convention, raising awareness in the
public at large and among children in particular. In this respect, the Committee
encourages the State party to provide the necessary human, financial and technical
resources for the effective implementation of the above-mentioned plan.
Training
25.
While welcoming the fact that juvenile-court judges are given specialized training
on the Convention, the Committee regrets that such training does not reach all the other
professionals working with or for children.
26.
The Committee recommends that all professional groups working for and with
children be adequately and systematically trained in children’s rights, in particular
law-enforcement officials, teachers, media, health workers, social workers, personnel
working in all forms of alternative care and migration authorities.
Cooperation with civil society
27.
The Committee expresses concern that members of non-governmental human rights
organizations, including those monitoring the situation of child rights as well as journalists
are often subjected to intimidation, harassment and arrests. The Committee is also
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