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awareness campaigns on the negative effects of violence against children, especially
corporal punishment.
Disappearance of unaccompanied minors
24.
While taking note of information supplied by the State party regarding the procedure
to protect unaccompanied minors, and of statistics on minors said to have disappeared from
its territory, the Committee is concerned by the matter of the disappearance of
unaccompanied minors and by the risk they run of becoming victims of human trafficking
or other forms of exploitation (art. 16).
The State party must examine the plight of unaccompanied minors closely, seek
means of preventing their disappearance, improve the level of protection afforded to
them and report to the Committee as soon as possible.
25.
The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights
treaties to which it is not yet party, namely, the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
26.
The Committee draws the attention of the State party to the fact that new
harmonized guidelines on the submission of reports were approved in 2009 by the
international human rights treaty bodies (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6) and invites it to submit its
core document in accordance with these new guidelines.
27.
The State party is urged to ensure wide circulation, particularly in all its official
languages and cantons, of the report submitted to the Committee and of the Committee’s
concluding observations through official websites, the media and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs).
28.
The Committee requests the State party to report, within one year, on its follow-up
to the Committee’s recommendations in paragraphs 8, 11, 16 and 23 of the present
document.
29.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its seventh periodic report not later
than 14 May 2014.
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