A/HRC/10/29 ensure that their international development assistance related directly or indirectly to children is rights-based and supports the implementation of the Convention; 10. Calls on all States to establish, maintain, strengthen or designate, in complementarity to effective governmental structures for children, independent mechanisms such as national human rights institutions in accordance with the Paris Principles, children’s ombudspersons, commissioners or focal points on the rights of the child in national human rights institutions that are sufficiently funded and accessible to children, to promote and monitor the implementation of the Convention and advance the universal realization of children’s rights; 11. Also calls on all States to ensure that child-sensitive procedures are made available to children and their representatives so that children have access to means of facilitating effective remedies for any breaches of any of their rights arising from the Convention through independent advice, advocacy and complaint procedures, including justice mechanisms, and that their views are heard when they are involved or their interests concerned in justice procedures; 12. Further calls on States to develop further, as appropriate, effective mechanisms that encourage and facilitate expression by children of their views, in particular with regard to the formulation of public policies from the local level up to the national level, and to ensure meaningful participation of children and reflection of their views in monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the Convention; 13. Calls upon all States to promote and develop, as appropriate, practical and systematic education and training for all those involved in the implementation of the Convention, government officials, parliamentarians and members of the judiciary, and for all those working with and for children as well as continuous specific education for children themselves, with the aim of emphasizing the status of the child as a holder of human rights, increasing knowledge and understanding of the Convention and encouraging active respect for all its provisions; 14. Urges States parties to publish and disseminate widely the text of the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto as well as national reports submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and concluding observations and recommendations of that Committee to all, including children, by effective means, including the Internet, and also in appropriate languages and in child-friendly and other accessible formats; 15. Encourages States parties to take duly into account, in implementing the provisions of the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto, the recommendations, observations and general comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child; 16. Welcomes the actions of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to follow up and monitor the implementation of its concluding observations and recommendations by the States parties and, in this regard, particularly underlines the regional workshops and the Committee’s participation in national-level initiatives; 17. Also welcomes the role that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights plays in promoting the implementation of the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto and, while noting with satisfaction the recent establishment of the Office-wide task force on the rights of the child, encourages the Office of the High Commissioner, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund and other relevant United Nations agencies, to ensure further the systematic integration of child rights into its programmes and activities; 18. Calls on all States parties, while implementing the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto, to work closely with civil society organizations, including child and youth-led organizations; 38 GE.09-17451