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4.
The Committee also wishes to welcome the ratification of:
(a)
The Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography on 8 May 2002;
(b)
The International Convention on the Protection on All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families, on 14 September 2005;
(c)
ILO Conventions No. 138 concerning the Minimum Age for Admission to
Employment and No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, respectively on 13 November 2002 and on
10 January 2002;
(d)
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, supplementing the 2000 United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, on 23 January 2002;
(e)
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, on 10 November 2001.
C. Main subjects of concern and recommendations
1. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42
and 44, para. 6 of the Convention)
Committee’s previous recommendations
5.
The Committee notes that some concerns and recommendations (CRC/C/15/Add.120)
made upon consideration of the State party’s second periodic report (CRC/C/65/Add.8) have
been addressed. However, it regrets that other of its concerns and recommendations have been
insufficiently or partly addressed, including, inter alia, those related to the strengthening of the
“Ente Rector”, non-discrimination, resource allocation, respect for the views of the child,
physical and sexual abuse of children within and outside the family, regional disparities in access
to health care, limited access to education for children belonging to indigenous groups, economic
exploitation of children and the administration of juvenile justice.
6.
The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those
recommendations in the concluding observations of the second periodic report that have
not yet been implemented and to provide adequate follow-up to the recommendations
contained in the present concluding observations on the third periodic report.
Legislation and implementation
7.
The Committee notes that there are still discrepancies between some domestic laws and
the Convention. Concern is expressed in particular about the articles in the Code on Children
and Adolescent referring to “pernicious gangs” (Decree Law No. 899 on “pandillaje
pernicioso”) which provide that persons below 18 in conflict with this law may be deprived of
liberty for up to six years, and at the so-called “Begging Bill” (“Ley de Mendicidad” No. 28190).