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9. Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
76.
The Committee recommends that the State party expedite the process of ratification
of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of children in
armed conflict.
10. Follow-up and dissemination
Follow-up
77.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to
ensure full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia, by transmitting
them to the members of the Council of Ministers and the Consultative Council or
Majlis al-Shura, and to provincial councils, when applicable, for appropriate consideration
and further action.
Dissemination
78.
The Committee further recommends that the second periodic report and written
replies submitted by the State party and related recommendations (concluding
observations) it adopted be made widely available in the languages of the country,
including (but not exclusively) through the Internet, to the public at large, civil society
organizations, youth groups, professional groups, and children in order to generate debate
and awareness of the Convention, its implementation and monitoring.
11. Next report
79.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its next periodic report
before the due date established under the Convention for the fourth periodic report,
i.e. 24 February 2013. This report should combine the third and fourth periodic reports.
However, owing to the large number of reports received by the Committee every year and
the consequent significant delay between the date of submission of a State party’s report
and its consideration by the Committee, the Committee invites the State party to
submit a consolidated third and fourth report 18 months before its due date, that is
by 24 August 2011. This report should not exceed 120 pages (see CRC/C/118). The
Committee expects the State party to report every five years thereafter, as foreseen by
the Convention.
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