CRC/C/PRY/CO/3 (f) Act No. 3156/2006 amending Act No. 1266/1997, to facilitate the registration of children who have no birth certificate; (g) The Indigenous Education Act (Act No. 3231/2007); (h) Act No. 3360/2007, which derogates from article 10 and modifies article 5 of the Compulsory Military Service Act No. 569/1975, and according to which, “no minors under 18 will be recruited”; (i) Act No. 3440/2008, which amends the Criminal Code, including the penalty for trafficking for labour exploitation and extraction of organs. 4. The Committee also welcomes the ratification by the State party of the following: (a) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 27 September 2002; (b) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography on 18 August 2003; (c) The Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities on 28 June 2002; (d) Convention No. 138 of the International Labour Organization, concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment on 3 March 2004; (e) The Protocol to the Convention against Transnational Crime to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol) on 22 September 2004; (f) The Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on 23 September 2008; (g) The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol on 3 September 2008. 5. The Committee also welcomes the effective launch of the Truth and Justice Commission in August 2004, established by Act No. 2225/2003. C. Main subjects of concern and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6, of the Convention) The Committee’s previous recommendations 6. The Committee notes that some of the concerns and recommendations (CRC/C/15/Add.166) made upon the consideration of the State party’s second periodic report have been addressed, but regrets that many others have been insufficiently or only partly addressed. 7. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations of the second periodic report that have not yet been implemented or sufficiently implemented, including those related to the harmonization of laws with the Convention, improved coordination of the national and the local levels, resource allocations for children, data collection, general principles of the Convention, birth registration, children with disabilities, violence and abuse against children, including sexual abuse, and juvenile 2

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