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further recommends that the State party conduct a demographic survey of the hill-tribe
population and of all other minority and indigenous groups, disaggregating data by sex,
age and province.

9. Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

80. The Committee welcomes the State party’s accession to the Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography in
January 2006. It notes the Cabinet’s recent decision to become party to the Optional
Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and recommends that the
State party ratify that Optional Protocol.

10. Follow-up and dissemination

Follow-up

81. The Committee recommends the State party to take all appropriate measures to
ensure full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia, by transmitting
them to the members of the Cabinet, the Parliament, to the relevant ministries and to
provincial and district authorities, when applicable, for appropriate consideration and
further action.

Dissemination

82. 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

83. In light of the recommendation on reporting periodicity adopted by the Committee
and described in the report of its twenty-ninth session (CRC/C/114), the Committee
underlines the importance of a reporting practice that is in full compliance with the
provisions of article 44 of the Convention. An important aspect of States parties’
responsibilities to children under the Convention is ensuring that the Committee on
the Rights of the Child has regular opportunities to examine the progress made in the
Convention’s implementation. In this regard, regular and timely reporting by States
parties is crucial. The Committee invites the State party to submit its third and fourth
reports in one consolidated report by 25 April 2009, the due date of the fourth report. This
consolidated report should not exceed 120 pages (see CRC/C/148). The Committee expects
the State party to report thereafter every five years, as foreseen by the Convention.

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