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(a)
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, in December 2010;
(b)
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in December 2008.
5.
The Committee welcomes the following policy measures:
(a)
National Action Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings for 2013–2016;
(b)
Strategy on Social Protection for 2012–2014;
Education Development Strategy for 2012–2020 and the Action Plan for the
(c)
Implementation of the Education Development Strategy for 2012–2014;
(d)
Decree of the Government on standards for social services to families and
children as well as institutions which provide social services to children in difficult life
circumstances on 9 October 2012;
(e)
Order of the Ministry of Social Services on a programme for rehabilitation of
children in conflict with the law on 17 May 2012;
(f)
Programme of State guarantees relating to the provision of medical and
health care of 2011, which inter alia, provides for free health care for children under 5 years
of age.
III. Main areas of concern and recommendations
A.
General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44 (6) of the
Convention)
The Committee’s previous recommendations
6.
While welcoming the State party’s efforts to implement the Committee’s concluding
observations of 1 October 2004 (CRC/C/15/Add.244) on the State party’s second periodic
report, the Committee notes with regret that some of the recommendations contained
therein have not been sufficiently addressed. Those issues remain of concern for the
Committee.
7.
The Committee urges the State party to take all the necessary measures to
address
those
recommendations
from
the
concluding
observations
(CRC/C/15/Add.244) that have not been implemented or sufficiently implemented,
and, in particular, it urges the State party to:
(a)
Establish a comprehensive policy with a view to strengthening its efforts
to ensure that the provisions and principles of the Convention are widely known and
understood by adults and children alike, and reinforce adequate and systematic
training of all professional groups working for and with children, in particular law
enforcements officials, teachers, health personnel (e.g. psychologists and social
workers) and personnel in childcare institutions;
(b)
Develop a comprehensive system for collecting disaggregated data
covering all those under the age of 18 years; that data can be used as a basis for
assessing progress achieved in the realization of children’s rights and to help design
policies to implement the Convention;
(c)
Strengthen the role of the Office of the Ombudsman, in particular the
Deputy Ombudsman for Children, in accordance with the principles relating to the
status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the
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