Communication plans and awareness raising for behaviour change exist for each project to protect disadvantaged groups, indigenous people, street children, HIV positive children, girls and women, persons with disabilities. But, there is no overall strategy to reach the general public. Each project benefits from the skills and experience of the UNICEF communication programme to develop and implement a communication plan without any major coordination with other sectors. In fact, efforts are visible through the multiplicity of governmental and non-governmental institutions dealing with its elimination and specific programmes for the protection and promotion of social groups threatened or discriminated against. It must be recalled that, as emphasized by the Committee, the principle is well reflected in the Family Code, the Penal Code and the Child Protection Act, and through all the judgments in favour of the rehabilitation and reintegration of children, even in the most severe cases. This principle also applies to indigenous children. Equal access to services tailored to the cultural specificity of indigenous people is a difficult goal to achieve, while the national effort has so far consisted only in reducing exclusion, notably through a standardisation process in accessing health care, educational services provision, social benefits, housing, drinking water and sanitation. An approach that takes into account the cultural specificity of indigenous people can only be considered as part of the implementation of the UN Declaration on Indigenous Issues to which the Republic of Congo is strongly committed through its representation mandate on behalf of the African States Group to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. B-The best interests of the child "The best interests of the child are the primary consideration in all actions and decisions concerning them." Article 4 of the Child Protection Act insists that "in all decisions taken in respect of the child, his/her maintenance within the family unit is important in the interest of his/her harmonious development and in order to consolidate parental responsibility of or that of any other person entrusted with his/her care. However, if it appears that it is contrary to the child’s interests to remain in his family unit, the court may decide otherwise. " In Title 5, the Child Protection Act clearly states, in Articles 73, 74, 75, 76 and 77 that in the administration of juvenile justice, the judge must take into account the following principles: "a / the decision should always be proportionate not only to the circumstances and severity of the offense but also to the circumstances and needs of the juvenile as well as the needs of society; b / deprivation of liberty is imposed on the child guilty of an offense if there is no other appropriate solutions; c / death penalty does not apply to offenses committed by children; d / the well-being of the child shall be the guiding factor in the consideration of his/her case; The child victim has the right to confidentiality, dignified treatment. If he/she is an asylum seeker, refugee or a victim of trafficking or sale, he/she is entitled to return, within a reasonable time in his home country.) 26

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