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groups of children who are in need of special protection, including indigenous children,
children belonging to minority groups, children living or working in the streets, child
domestic workers, children with disabilities and children in institutions.
Training/dissemination of the Convention
23.
The Committee regrets the paucity of information with respect to the training and/or the
dissemination of the Convention.
24.
The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to
disseminate in a systematic and permanent manner the Convention throughout the country
and to raise public awareness, in particular among children themselves and parents, about
its principles and provisions.
25.
Furthermore, the Committee encourages the State party to strengthen its efforts to
provide adequate and systematic training and/or sensitization on children’s rights of
professionals working with and for children, in particular law enforcement officials, as well
as parliamentarians, judges, lawyers, health and local Government personnel, media, social
workers, teachers, school administrators and others as required.
2. General principles (arts. 2, 3, 6 and 12 of the Convention)
Non-discrimination
26.
The Committee is concerned that de facto discrimination still exists towards certain
vulnerable groups such as children with disabilities, indigenous children, children living in rural
and remote areas and those working or living in the streets.
27.
The Committee recommends that the State party increase its efforts to ensure
implementation of existing laws guaranteeing the principle of non-discrimination and full
compliance with article 2 of the Convention, and adopt a proactive and comprehensive
strategy to eliminate discrimination on any grounds and against all vulnerable groups
throughout the country.
28.
The Committee also requests that specific information be included, in the next
periodic report, on the measures and programmes relevant to the Convention on the Rights
of the Child undertaken by the State party to follow up on the Declaration and Programme
of Action adopted at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, also taking into account the Committee’s general
comment No. 1 on article 29 (1) of the Convention (aims of education).
Best interests of the child
29.
While the Committee welcomes that the principle of the best interests of the child is
enshrined in article VIII of the Code on Children and Adolescents, it is concerned that this
principle is not fully applied in practice, for instance in the allocation of resources to children, in
decisions on alternative care and their revision and in the administration of justice.