CRC/C/15/Add.190 page 2 5. The Committee welcomes the establishment of children’s and women’s rights services within several ministries and bodies; the establishment of a Commission on Human Rights and Public Obligations in the National Assembly; the establishment of the Sudan National Committee for the Eradication of Harmful Practices; and the State party’s various measures to improve respect for the rights of women, including the campaigns against female genital mutilation and early marriage, and the encouragement of child spacing. C. Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Convention 6. The Committee notes the extremely negative impact of the armed conflict on children and that it has created conditions in which even a minimal implementation of the Convention is difficult. While noting the de facto control by non-State actors of areas of the State party’s territory, notably in southern Sudan, the Committee emphasizes the full responsibility of the State party; it invites all other parties to respect child rights within the area under their control. 7. The Committee further notes the current and long-standing economic difficulties, including a high level of foreign debt and dependency on declining foreign assistance. D. Principal subjects of concern, suggestions and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation 8. The Committee expresses its concern that the large majority of the concerns and recommendations contained in the concluding observations (CRC/C/15/Add.6) adopted following consideration of the State party’s initial report (CRC/C/3/Add.3) in 1993 have been insufficiently addressed. Many of the same concerns and recommendations are made in the present document. 9. The Committee recommends that the State party make every effort to address those recommendations contained in its concluding observations on the initial report that have not yet been implemented and the concerns contained in the present concluding observations. Legislation 10. While noting that consideration of a draft children’s code is continuing, the Committee, in light of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/18, expresses its concern that: (a) Domestic legislation across the whole of the country, including in southern Sudan, is not in full conformity with the Convention; (b) treaties. The State party has yet to ratify a number of core international human rights