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account. The Committee would like to suggest that a comprehensive strategy be
worked out and put into operation as quickly as possible to realize this
objective. It is important that such information should be prepared in the
languages of children belonging to minorities or indigenous groups and should
reach the people living in the remoter rural areas. Training material and
programmes about the rights of the child should also be prepared and provided
to personnel and professionals working with children, including judges,
teachers, those working in institutions for children and law enforcement
officials.
24.
The Committee considers that greater efforts are required to sensitize
society to the needs and situation of the girl child, to children living in
rural areas and to socially disadvantaged children living in urban areas, in
the light of article 2 of the Convention.
25.
The Committee is of the view that further measures and efforts are
urgently required to facilitate the registration of children so as to ensure
that all children in Honduras possess the necessary registration
certificates/documentation.
26.
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that its adoption
procedures are in conformity with the provisions of the Convention, especially
its articles 3, 12 and 21, and other relevant international instruments. The
Committee recommends that the State party consider signing and ratifying the
Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of
Intercountry Adoption.
27.
The Committee urges the State party to further strengthen family
education programmes which should provide information on parental
responsibilities in the upbringing of a child, including the importance of
avoiding the physical punishment of children. The Committee further
recommends that greater attention and resources be extended to the provision
of family planning information and services. The Committee encourages the
State party to further support measures which promote the provision of child
care services and centres for working mothers.
28.
While the Committee recognizes that the State party has introduced and
developed primary health care and achieved major progress in immunization
coverage, it notes that in some areas of the country, particularly in rural
areas, a serious problem of access to the public health system, including
primary health, persists. The Committee recommends that measures be taken
urgently to extend and strengthen the primary health care system and to
improve the quality of health care, including through incentives to attract
higher numbers of volunteers into the system at the community level and
through the provision of essential medicines and medical equipment at the
various levels of health care in the country.
29.
The Committee takes note of the efforts made by the State party to
provide family and social assistance programmes as well as to implement
supplementary food programmes with the aid of international cooperation,
including from the World Food Programme. Notwithstanding these efforts, the
Committee recommends that major attention and resources must be focused on
further measures to address the problems of extreme poverty affecting the