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half of the population affected, do not receive the attention they require in situations of
emergency.
88.
The Committee recommends that the State party develop a comprehensive policy,
provide adequate resources and intense training, including for children, for prevention and
effective responses to emergencies required especially with regard to the most vulnerable
victims like children and pregnant women. The Committee further recommends that the
State party take into account the recommendations of the Committee’s Day of General
Discussion 2008 “The right of the child to education in emergency situations”.
9. Ratification of international human rights instruments
89.
The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the core United Nations
human rights treaties and their Protocols to which it is not yet a party, namely the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, the
Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the
Second Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
90.
The Committee encourages the State party to submit its initial reports under the
two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which were due in
July 2005 (Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography) and January 2007 (Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in
armed conflict).
10.
Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
91.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to
ensure full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia, by transmitting
them to the Parliament, Courts, relevant ministries and local authorities for appropriate
consideration and further action.
Dissemination
92.
The Committee recommends that the fourth periodic report and written replies
submitted by the State party and related recommendations (concluding observations) it
adopted be made widely available to the public at large, civil society organizations, youth
groups, and children in order to generate debate and awareness of the Convention, its
implementation and monitoring.
11. Next report
93.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its combined fifth and sixth
periodic reports, by 1 September 2015. This report should not exceed 120 pages (see
CRC/C/118).