1. Please provide information on whether the report is being made widely available to the public and, if the answer is yes, please indicate the ways and means by which this is being done.

2. What efforts have been made to make children aware of the Convention as well as its principles and provisions?

3. To what extent have school curricula been adjusted to give room for education about the Convention? What measures have been taken to train professional groups about the Convention?

4. Please provide clarification as to the status of the Convention in relation to national law?

5. Please provide details of any new measures, including those of a legislative and administrative nature, as well amendments to existing laws, introduced to enforce the Convention.

6. Please provide more information on the mechanisms in place for promoting the rights of the child and monitoring implementation of the Convention and the role of non-governmental organizations in contributing to these tasks.

7. With reference to information contained in para. 10 of the report, please explain how the legislation relating to minimum age for employment and the prohibition of harmful work is being applied in practice? What mechanisms exist to supervise compliance with this law and what penalties are imposed for any violations of the law?

8. Does the Government intend to review its legislation concerning the different minimum age of marriage for boys and girls, in light of the provisions of the Convention, particularly its article 2? (See para. 11 of the report)

9. What are the different minimum ages for legal and medical counselling without parental consent, sexual consent and imprisonment?

10. Please indicate to what extent the provisions of article 2 of the Convention are covered in national legislation with regard to all possible grounds for discrimination spelled out in that article.

11. What efforts are being made to collect disaggregated data for groups of children on aspects relating to the Convention? Is there a need for international assistance in this area?

12. What further measures or efforts are being taken to protect the girl child against the harmful effects of traditional practices or customs (see paras. 59 and 60 of the report)?

13. With regard to information contained in para. 17 of the report, please indicate how the law protects the interests of children of mentally ill mothers and children without a mother.

14. Please provide further information on the ways in which "the best interests of the child" are taken into consideration in the legislation as well as in judicial, administrative or other proceedings.

15. What concrete measures have been taken to sensitize public opinion and educate personnel working with children about the need to encourage children's participatory rights?

16. Please provide details of the rules and procedures relating to the registration of children after birth. Is there a time period by which such registration should be made?

17. With reference to para. 30 of the report, please provide information on the children's associations existing in the country.

18. Do provisions of national legislation specifically protect the child's right to privacy?

19. Have any cases of ill-treatment of children been submitted to the national courts?

20. Please provide information on any cases where censorship has been or is being exercised to protect children against the harmful influences of the media.

21. Does any minimum age for the child exist at which parent's cease to exercise authority over the child for the purpose of parental guidance in education?

22. Is any information available as regards the existence of any practices by which parents treat their children with disrespect, parental authority is over exercised and corporal punishment is meted out against children within the family situation?

23. What measures, if any, have been taken to ensure that children in customary adoption situations are not ill-treated and that their rights are safeguarded?

24. Is parental education provided for, and are family counselling services available?

25. What possibilities exist to improve the health education for children in school and in the home?

26. Please provide information on the progress being made as regards the implementation of the National Plan of Action, especially in the field of health.

27. Please provide details of any problems encountered and positive experiences gained from the implementation of the Bambako Initiative.

28. What percentage of GDP and the budget is allocated to health care and more specifically to preventive health programmes and mother and child health care?

29. Please provide an indication, if possible, as to the level of international cooperation in the efforts to mobilize resources for the implementation of social programmes. Which areas of the social programmes are most in need of attention? Please provide information on any existing or planned measures to ensure that social security benefits, such as those available through the National Security Fund for salaried workers, are extended to the whole population, particularly to women and children.

30. What proportion of the national budget is reserved for education and what portion of this is allocated to compulsory primary education?

31. With regard to information contained in paras. 15 and 65 of the report, please provide details of the measures being taken to make primary education free and compulsory and available to all. In addition, what programmes exist to prevent school drop-out?

32. In the field of administration of juvenile justice, please provide further information, in the light of articles 37, 40 and 39 of the Convention, in particular on:

- the use of arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child as a measure of last resort and for the shortest period of time;

- the possiblity to have prompt access to legal and other appropriate assistance, as well as for challenging the legality of the deprivation of liberty before a court or other competent, independent and impartial authority, and of having a prompt decision thereon;

- the measures taken to implement article 40 of the Convention, including the safeguards to be ensured to the child alleged as, accused of or recognized as having infringed the penal law;

- the measures taken or envisaged to deal with such children without resorting to judicial proceedings, and providing for human rights and legal safeguards to be fully respected;

- special training courses for professional groups such as judges and law enforcement officers in the light of the Convention and of other United Nations standards adopted in the field of the administration of juvenile justice.

33. With reference to information contained in para. 78 of the report, please indicate whether any positive results have been observed as regards the effects of the measures taken to organize the informal employment sector with a view to diminishing the economic exploitation of children.

34. Please provide further information on the concrete measures taken for the implementation of article 39 of the Convention.