Committee appreciates the adoption of the Proclamation on Ethiopian Nationality and recommends for the prevention of statelessness and granting nationality for abandoned children whose nationality is not known. The Committee refers to its General Comment No. 2 on article 6 of the Charter for the better implementation of the right to name, nationality and birth registration. On freedom of expression, access to appropriate information, freedom of thought, conscience and religion 20. The Committee welcomes the children’s parliaments as a forum for expression, however, doubts their effectiveness. It encourages the State Party to build the capacity of the parliaments, consider their view in policy making and involve them in the execution process. In addition, children should be accorded with the opportunity to access information in their own language. Specifically, children in rural areas do not have access to information in their own language. The Committee thus calls upon the State Party to provide the necessary information, including information relating to their rights under this Charter, to children in all areas in their own language using all feasible mediums of communication. 21. The Committee recommends for children to be provided with freedom of thought and religion. The Government should create a balance between parental responsibility and freedom of children to thought, conscience and religion.. On protection against abuse and torture 22. The Committee is concerned that there are some forms of corporal punishment not prohibited by the law. This exposes children to abuse as it is difficult to assess and monitor the level of violence that corporal punishment causea. Hence, the Committee encourages the State Party to prohibit corporal punishment within the family, school and other alternative care institutions. The Committee encourages the Government to explicitly outlaw corporal punishment in the Criminal Code.To this end the Government needs to create awareness on positive parenting and disciplining of children. 23. The Committee urges the State party to intensify efforts to combat all forms of violence against children, especially girls. Perpetrators should not be met with impunity, and the state party is encouraged to continue to develop the capacity of specialised police units to investigate and follow up on incidents of abuse and violence against children. E. Family environment and alternative care 6