CRC/C/RWA/CO/3-4 (c) The draft Justice for Children Policy and the Legal Aid Policy are yet to be finalized and adopted. 63. The Committee recommends that the State party bring the juvenile justice system fully into line with the Convention and with other relevant standards, including the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules), the United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (Riyadh Guidelines), the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (Havana Rules), the Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System; and the Committee’s general comment No. 10 (2007) on children’s rights in juvenile justice. In particular, the Committee urges the State party to: (a) Take all measures to establish separate children’s courts at the High Court and the lower courts, and in the meantime extend specialized juvenile chambers at both the lower court and High Court levels; (b) Ensure that children in street situations, child victims of prostitution and other crimes are treated as victims rather than offenders by law-enforcement and judicial authorities; (c) Permanently close all unofficial places of detention, including the detention centre in Gikondo and stop the arbitrary detention of children in need of protection, such as children in street situations and child victims of prostitution, and conduct thorough investigations of acts of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and other abuses occurring in the centres; and (d) Expedite the adoption of the Justice for Children Policy and the Legal Aid Policy to address the concerns raised in surveys conducted by the Ministry of Justice in 2006 and the Legal Aid Forum in 2007. Child victims and witnesses of crimes 64. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure, through adequate legal provisions and regulations, that all child victims and/or witnesses of crimes, including child victims of abuse, domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, abduction and trafficking and witnesses of such crimes, are provided with the protection required by the Convention and that the State party take fully into account the Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (annexed to Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20). J. Ratification of international human rights instruments 65. In order to further strengthen the fulfilment of children’s rights, the Committee encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. K. Cooperation with regional and international bodies 66. The Committee recommends that the State party continue its cooperation with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child of the African Union towards the implementation of the Convention, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and other human rights instruments, both in the State party and in other African Union member States. 18