operates at national and provincial levels and in a number of districts. Children elected to the Youth Parliament discuss their rights and interact with government members, MPs, and State and civil society representatives who seek to provide answers to issues which are raised. 291.Seminars and debates have been organized, and pamphlets, posters and brochures on issues tailored to adults and children have been produced with a view to sensitizing society about the rights of children. 292. Despite the efforts that have been made since independence for the benefit of Mozambique’s children, their rights are yet to be fully complied with due to extreme poverty still prevailing in the country. Regarding the free registration of births, it is important to mention that this exercise began in 2005. By 31 December 2010, a total of 7,025,099 children and 657,209 adults had been registered. The registration of adults became necessary as unregistered parents sought to register their children at registration units. Under the circumstances, parents were first registered, followed by their children. 293.It is important to mention that registration officers have been assigned to maternity homes where they register newborn children. Nonetheless, there have been shortcomings either because mothers give birth in places other than maternity homes or parents are absent. A campaign has been under way to register every child up to the age of 18 at community level. Families have been impressed on the need to give names to their children prior to birth to allow their registration even when parents are absent. Families have also been advised about procedures to be followed by single mothers for registration purposes. 294.A National Action Plan for Children (PNAC) was introduced in 2005. PNAC, which covered the period between 2005 and 2010, was specifically designed to give “priority to children”, having defined six priority areas for the government:      Basic Education, guaranteeing education for all by doing away with genderand region-based imbalances; Maternal-Child Health, which aims at reducing the infant-child mortality rate (deaths up to the age of 5) to 82 deaths per 1,000 live births (according to the Millennium Goals); HIV/AIDS, which seeks to reduce vertical and other forms of transmission of the virus to children, and adopt measures to deal with orphans whose parents have died to AIDS; Social Action, which aims at adopting measures to protect and assist children who are victims of sexual abuse, child labor, trafficking of minors, domestic violence, and organ trafficking, among others; Nutrition, which seeks to reduce the high levels of chronic malnutrition among children (41% of children between 0-5 suffer from chronic malnutrition). 295.A great many measures have been put in place to promote and protect the rights of children. Yet, the continual and permanent materialization of the rights of children is still faced with a number of challenges: Combined Report from the Republic of Mozambique to the ACHPR, 1999-2010 52