CRC/C/SLV/CO/3-4 mistakenly depicted in the media and in the society as the main cause of the spread of violence affecting the country 28. In light of article 2 of the Convention, the Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party: (a) Ensure full implementation in practice of all legal provisions prohibiting discrimination; (b) Combat discrimination by, inter alia, ensuring equal access to education, health-care facilities and poverty reduction programmes and pay special attention to the situation of girls; (c) Take measures to address the inappropriate characterization and stigmatization of children, especially adolescents, within the society, including in the media; (d) Carry out comprehensive public education campaigns to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination; (e) Intensify its efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of de facto discrimination against adolescents, children with disabilities, girls, children living in rural and remote areas, children in street situations, indigenous children and children from economically excluded families; (f) Take into account in these efforts the recommendations adopted by the Committee in its general comment No. 11 (2009) on indigenous children and their rights under the Convention, as well as the outcome document adopted at the 2009 Durban Review Conference. Best interests of the child 29. The Committee notes with appreciation that the principle of the best interests of the child is already included in the Family Code (art. 305) and is also enshrined in the LEPINA, notably in its article 12. However, the Committee is concerned that the principle is not sufficiently implemented in practice, especially in the areas of prevention, corporal punishment, child protection and juvenile justice. 30. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that the principle of best interests of the child does not remain on paper but is taken into account in practice in children’s policies and programmes; (b) Continue and strengthen its efforts to ensure that the general principle of the best interests of the child is appropriately integrated in all legal provisions as well as in judicial and administrative decisions and in projects, programmes, and services that have an impact on children; (c) Carry out a study to assess how the principle of the best interests of the child is implemented in practice in individual cases at judicial and administrative levels; (d) Take into account the recommendations adopted in general comment No. 5 (2003). Right to life, survival and development 31. The Committee is extremely concerned at the very high number of killings of children, many of whom are members of “maras”, at a rate of one child killed every day. The Committee is concerned at the fact that these crimes are not responded to with effective 7