to His Majesty’s Government employees and members of parliament, constitutional bodies and various commissions who receive state funding. - Influencing His Majesty’s Government to improve its regulatory and monitoring mechanism to protect the children from exploitative Expected Results of SO 1. Code of conduct on child labour for the persons and organisations who receive state funds is developed and implemented by the His Majesty’s Government. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 6 To improve the extent to which international treaties and conventions on human rights are ratified, domesticated and implemented in Nepal. Key priorities will be: - Pursuing/facilitating His Majesty’s Government to ratify all outstanding international treaties, conventions and optional protocols relating to human rights and to submit quality reports to the treaty bodies in time with the comments of NHRC. - Reviewing the existing legislation by assigning priority to those that are related to the Strategic Plan 2004-2008 and the draft bills that are being submitted to enact legislation to ensure that they comply with the constitutional guarantees and the international standards on human rights. - Ensuring that torture is dealt with as a serious crime with harsh punitive measures in Torture Compensation Act. - Improving the application of international human rights norms in the court while litigating legal cases with an aim to address the factors that have been impeding the right to fair trial. 2. Legislation affecting children are consistent on the definition of child and fully in line with CRC and other relevant international treaties and conventions. 3. Significant improvements in regulatory and monitoring arrangements to curb the violence against children at work place, schools and home. 4. Mechanism to discourage the use of children in worst form of labour work in place. 5. Prevented the use of children in conflict. form of child labour, especially domestic, restaurants, factories and quarries; and monitoring the work of His Majesty’s Government in the areas of juvenile justice system. - - Independent monitoring of trafficking of children and the effectiveness of monitoring mechanisms of the state. Conducting a research to identify the magnitude of child trafficking (in conjunction with the research on trafficking of women). Expected Results of SO - - Initiating enactment of new legislation, or amendment to existing legislation to protect children from abuse, including corporal punishment in schools. Investigating the use of children in conflict and put pressure on the parties responsible for correcting their act. 1. All major treaties, protocols and major optional protocols including the statute on the establishment of International Criminal Court ratified. 2. Significant improvements in treaty reporting by His Majesty’s Government. 3. Amendments of existing legislation or introduction of new legislation completed to domesticate newly ratified treaties and to remove the inconsistencies. 27