CRC/C/VNM/CO/3-4 (e) Consider ratifying the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Administration of juvenile justice 73. In spite of progress in certain areas of juvenile justice, the Committee regrets that its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.200, para. 54) has not been fully addressed by the State party, and in particular expresses its concern about: (a) The lack of a comprehensive juvenile justice system, including the absence of a juvenile court, and that the current measures cover children under the age of 16 only; (b) The rising number of young offenders and the State party’s punitive system of dealing with young offenders; (c) The limited alternatives to child detention, and the absence of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. 74. The Committee recommends that the State party bring its juvenile justice system fully into line with the Convention, in particular articles 37, 39 and 40, 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 (the Riyadh Guidelines), the Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (the Havana Rules), the Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System, and the Committee’s general comment No. 10 (2007) on the rights of the child in juvenile justice. In particular, the Committee urges the State party: (a) To expedite the revision of the Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Law and the Ordinance on administrative violations, with a view to ensuring their full compliance with the Convention’s principles and provisions by, inter alia, including all children under the age of 18 in the juvenile justice system; (b) To establish a specialized juvenile court and specialized police-protection units for children; (c) To allocate adequate human, technical and financial resources to the juvenile justice system to ensure a focus on diversion and other alternative measures to deprivation of liberty, and ensure the provision of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. Children belonging to minority groups 75. The Committee urges the State party to take all effective measures to close disparities in the enjoyment of rights between children belonging to minority groups and children belonging to the majority population in all areas covered under the Convention, and to pay particular attention to standards of living, health and education as recommended in previous paragraphs. The Committee further urges the State party to intensify its efforts to comply with the recommendations set forth in the report of the Independent Expert on minority issues (A/HRC/16/45/Add.2), as well as those in the report of the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty (A/HRC/17/34/Add.1), in particular with the minority-related recommendations therein, and to report on progress achieved in that respect in its next periodic report to the Committee. 20

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