CRC/C/15/Add.170 page 6 28. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its efforts to provide training for professionals - such as teachers, health professionals including psychological care specialists, social workers, law enforcement officials, judges, lawyers and national ministerial and local government officials with responsibility for children’s rights - children, parents and the population in general, and distinct ethnic, religious, linguistic or cultural groups, on the Convention and its principles and provisions and other relevant human rights instruments in a systematic and ongoing manner; (b) Adopt measures to ensure that training and/or information campaigns reach, among others, populations in rural communities and illiterate persons; (c) Ensure that translated versions of the Convention are disseminated, as needed, in the languages spoken within the State party by the distinct groups referred to under paragraph 28 (a) of these concluding observations. 2. Definition of the child 29. Taking note of the State party’s indication of its intention to change legislation and define the age of majority uniformly as 18, and noting the Special Committee that has been appointed in this regard, the Committee is concerned: (a) At inconsistencies in the definitions of a child within the State party’s legislation, including that under civil law a minor is a person who has not reached age 18 while under penal law a minor is a person who has not reached 17; (b) aged 17. 30. That domestic legislation allows the drafting into the armed forces of children The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Clarify the age of majority, with particular regard to penal law and the international practice that juvenile justice standards are extended to children up until age 18; (b) Raise, in light of the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict signed by the State party in September 2000, the minimum age at which persons can be conscripted into the armed forces to at least age 18. 3. General principles 31. The Committee is concerned that the principles of non-discrimination (article 2 of the Convention), best interests of the child (art. 3) and respect for the views of the child (art. 12) are not fully reflected in the State party’s legislation and administrative and judicial decisions, as well as in policies and programmes relevant to children.