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Seek assistance from, inter alia, the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights, the United Nations Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice, regional
institutions and UNICEF.
Indigenous children
72.
While welcoming the measures taken to encourage indigenous children to attend schools,
the Committee remains deeply concerned at the limited enjoyment of rights by indigenous
children, especially indigenous migrant workers, in particular their very limited access to
education and health, their disproportionately high malnutrition rate and their infant and maternal
mortality rates. It is particularly concerned about the disproportionately high number of working
children among indigenous children.
73.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to
protect the rights of indigenous children against discrimination and to guarantee their
enjoyment of the rights enshrined in domestic law and in the Convention. The Committee
further recommends that the State party provide indigenous communities in their own
language as well as in a child-friendly format, with sufficient information regarding birth
registration procedures; child labour; education and health; HIV/AIDS; child abuse and
neglect, including corporal punishment; and on themes covered by the Optional Protocols
to the Convention. In this regard, the Committee refers the State party to its
recommendations adopted following its day of general discussion on the rights of
indigenous children at its thirty-fourth session in 2003 and to the recommendations issued
by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of
indigenous people, contained in his report E/CN.4/2004/80/Add.2.
9. Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
74.
The Committee welcomes the ratification by the State party of the Optional Protocol to
the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and
to the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
75.
The Committee encourages the submission of its initial reports under both Optional
Protocols in a timely manner, and if possible, at the same time, to facilitate the review
process.
10. Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
76.
Noting with appreciation the pledge made by the State party in support of its candidacy to
the Human Rights Council to implement the recommendations from the treaty bodies, the
Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to ensure the full
implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia by transmitting them to the members
of the National Congress, departmental councils and municipal governments for appropriate
consideration and further action.