takes note of the reports of the Committee on its twelfth to seventeenth sessions (A/53/41) and eighteenth and
nineteenth sessions (CRC/C/79 and CRC/C/80, respectively);
(c)
The positive results of the cooperation between the Committee on the Rights of the Child and
the United Nations Children's Fund, as well as specialized agencies and other relevant actors, supports the rightsbased approach adopted by the Children's Fund, and encourages its further development;
(d)
The increasing contribution of non-governmental organizations, inter alia through providing
information to the Committee and States parties, when the latter are preparing their reports to the Committee,
and through contributing, where they can, in the implementation of the Committee’s recommendations for the
effective implementation of the Convention;
(e)
The decision adopted by the Committee to organize, with the Office of the High Commissioner
and the United Nations Children’s Fund, a twoday workshop during its twentysecond session entitled “The
Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Decade of Achievements and Challenges”;
(f)
The invitation by the General Assembly to the Committee to enhance further the constructive
dialogue with the States parties and the transparent and effective functioning of the Committee;
2.
Calls upon States parties:
(a)
To implement the Convention fully and to ensure that the rights set forth in the Convention are
respected without discrimination of any kind, that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in all
actions concerning children, and that children are able to express their opinions on matters affecting them and
that these opinions are listened to and given due weight;
(b)
To ensure adequate and systematic training for professional groups working with and for
children, inter alia, specialized judges, law enforcement officials, lawyers, social workers, medical doctors and
teachers, and coordination between various governmental bodies involved in children's rights;
(c)
To intensify efforts to ensure the registration of all children immediately after birth and
strengthen efforts to improve national systems for the collection of comprehensive and disaggregated data,
including gender-specific data, for all areas covered by the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
(d)
To cooperate closely with the Committee on the Rights of the Child and to comply in a timely
manner with their reporting obligations under the Convention, in accordance with the guidelines elaborated by
the Committee, as well as to take into account the recommendations made by the Committee in the
implementation of the provisions of the Convention;
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