a. Establish easily accessible and nearby health care centers where birth could be attended by professional health personnel; b. promote good feeding practice in the community; c. promote nutrition enhancing agriculture; d. integrate nutrition objectives into agricultural and developmental programmes; e. promoting exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 month after birth; f. Intensify distribution of mosquito net for a full coverage. 13. Finally, the Committee encourages the State Party to refer to and implement the African Regional Nutritional Strategy 2005-2015. The views of the child 14. The Committee commends that the State Party has established children’s parliament and children’s commune, as well as the celebrations of the Day of the African Child and the Day of the Struggle against Child Labour. However, some reports show that the Government does not provide any kind of support to children’s parliament and children’s commune. The Committee, hence, calls upon the State Party to provide material, technical and financial support to these structures; and to establish such structures in all regions of the Country particularly in rural areas. Furthermore, the Committee encourages the State Party to have a child led celebration of child rights events. 15. The Committee also recommends that the State Party gives appropriate consideration to the views of children in decision and policy making mechanisms. D. Civil rights and freedoms Right to name, nationality and birth registration 16. The Committee appreciates that every child is legally entitled to birth registration within 12 days after birth. The Committee observed that failure to register birth within the prescribed time results in criminal penalty. The Committee is of the view that such penalty will discourage birth registration after the 12 days have lapsed and hence recommends that the State Party removes such barrier. 17. The Committee is also concerned that millions of children are not registered despite the legal requirement to do so and that there are regional disparities in birth registration. Thus, the Committee encourages the State Party to provide mobile birth registration system in remote areas; to establish computerized birth registration system in health care centers; to provide the necessary facilities required for registration; and to train personnel working in civil registration services. 18. Moreover, the Committee is concerned about the customary practice of late naming up to two years from birth which is against Article 6 of the African Children’s Charter. In accordance with the Charter, children have the right to birth registration immediately after birth, which is few days or weeks after birth and not months or 5