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(c) Provide children, both victims and accused, with adequate legal assistance
throughout the legal proceedings;
(d) Be guided in this respect by the Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving
Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20);
(e) Ensure that detention and institutionalisation of child offenders is only
recurred to as a last resort;
(f)
Seek technical assistance and other cooperation from the Interagency Panel
on Juvenile Justice, which includes UNODC, UNICEF, OHCHR and NGOs.
Children belonging to a minority group
80. The Committee notes the lack of information on children belonging to minority groups in
the report of the State Party.
81. The Committee urges the State party to provide information on the fulfilment of the
rights of children belonging to minority groups in its next periodic report.
8. Ratification of international human rights instruments
82.
The Committee is of the opinion that the ratification of or accession to other
international core human rights instruments would strengthen the efforts of the State party to
meet its obligations in guaranteeing the full realization of rights of all children under its
jurisdiction.
83. The Committee encourages the State party to ratify or accede to all core
international human rights instruments and ensure prompt compliance and
implementation with reporting requirements in order to promote and improve the overall
protection of human rights.
9. Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
84. The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to
ensure that the present recommendations are fully implemented, inter alia by transmitting
them to the members of the Cabinet, the Parliament, and to regional and sub-regional
authorities, when applicable, for appropriate consideration and further action.
Dissemination
85. The Committee further recommends that the second and third periodic report and
written replies submitted by the State party and the related recommendations (concluding
observations) it adopted be made widely available in the languages of the country,
including (but not exclusively) through the Internet to the public at large, civil society