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8.
The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure full
conformity of its legislation with the Convention and to ensure that the law in question is
fully implemented in practice.
Coordination
9.
The Committee concurs with the statement made in the State party’s report that “the need
to coordinate children’s problems and find solutions to them at the national level is more urgent
than ever” (para. 78). The Committee notes with regret in this regard that, apart from the body
set up in 1999 to coordinate the affairs of children deprived of parental care, no standing national
mechanism has been established to ensure effective coordination of activities in the field of
children’s rights between ministries, local authorities and non-governmental organizations.
10.
The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party take further
measures to ensure effective national coordination of activities in the field of children’s
rights and that adequate support be given to local authorities for the implementation of the
Convention.
Data collection
11.
While acknowledging the establishment of a data bank with data on adoptions, children
in institutions, abandoned and vagrant children, as well as the detailed data on education
presented in the State party’s written replies, the Committee reiterates its concern about the
absence of mechanisms to collect and analyse disaggregated data on persons under 18 years in
all areas covered by the Convention, including the most vulnerable groups, such as children with
disabilities, street children, children living in rural areas, refugee children and children belonging
to minority groups.
12.
The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party develop a
comprehensive system for collecting disaggregated data as a basis on which to assess
progress achieved in the realization of children’s rights and to help design policies to
implement the Convention. The Committee encourages the State party to seek technical
assistance from, among others, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in this
regard.
Independent monitoring structures
13.
The Committee underlines the importance of ensuring that the newly established Human
Rights Procurator (Ombudsperson) receives sufficient powers and human and financial resources
to deal adequately with children’s rights.
14.
The Committee encourages the State party to ensure that the Office of the Human
Rights Procurator works as an independent and effective national institution in accordance
with the Principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and
protection of human rights (the Paris Principles, General Assembly resolution 48/134,
annex). The Committee recommends that the State party, in accordance with the
Committee’s general comment No. 2 (2002) on the role of national human rights
institutions in the protection and promotion of the rights of the child, establish either a