CRC/C/COD/CO/3-5 and any resulting programmes, address the stigma and exclusion faced by former girl soldiers; (i) Establish and exercise universal jurisdiction over war crimes related to conscription, enlistment and the use of children in hostilities. I. Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on a communications procedure 49. The Committee recommends that the State party, in order to further strengthen the fulfilment of children’s rights, ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on a communications procedure. J. Ratification of international human rights instruments 50. The Committee recommends that the State party, in order to further strengthen the fulfilment of children’s rights, ratify the core human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party. V. Implementation and reporting A. Follow-up and dissemination 51. The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to ensure that the recommendations contained in the present concluding observations are fully implemented, including by transmitting them to the Head of State, the parliament, relevant ministries, the Supreme Court and local authorities for appropriate consideration and further action. 52. The Committee also recommends that the combined third to fifth periodic reports, the written replies to the list of issues and the present concluding observations be made widely available in the languages of the country, including through the Internet, to the public at large, civil society organizations, representatives of the media, youth groups, professional groups and children, in order to generate debate and awareness of the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto and of the need to have them implemented and their implementation monitored. B. Next report 53. The Committee invites the State party to submit its combined sixth to eighth periodic reports by 26 October 2022 and to include therein information on the followup to the present concluding observations. The report should be in compliance with the Committee’s harmonized treaty-specific reporting guidelines adopted on 31 January 2014 (CRC/C/58/Rev.3) and should not exceed 21,200 words (see General Assembly resolution 68/268, para. 16). In the event that a report exceeding the established word limit is submitted, the State party will be asked to shorten the report in accordance with the above-mentioned resolution. If the State party is not in a position to review and resubmit the report, translation thereof for the purposes of consideration by the treaty body cannot be guaranteed. 17