UN Child Rights Committee to review
Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Mozambique, Panama, Portugal, and
the Republic of Korea
GENEVA (6 September 2019) — The UN
Child Rights Committee will meet in Geneva from 9 to 27 September to review
children’s rights in Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mozambique, Portugal,
and the Republic of Korea. The Committee will also review Georgia under the
Optional Protocol on sale of children. It will further review Georgia and
Panama under the Optional Protocol on children in armed conflict.
The above are among the States
parties to the Child Rights Convention and its Optional Protocols, and so are
required to undergo regular reviews on how they are implementing the
Committee’s previous recommendations and the Convention or its Optional Protocols.
The Committee will hold dialogues with delegations from the respective
governments.
The public sessions will take place
in the ground floor conference room of Palais Wilson in Geneva. A programme of
work is available on-line.
On Monday, 16 September at the
Palais des Nations, the Child Rights Committee will launch a public exhibition
on pledges made by States with respect to children’s rights at 13:30 in the
Salon des Pas Perdus. It will then host a public event from 15:00 to 18:00 in
Room XVI on “30 years of children’s rights: Where we are and where we want to
be” to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Convention. Further information is
available on-line. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRC30.aspx
The recommended hashtag for the
meeting is #CRC82 and for the CRC 30th anniversary #childrights and #CRC30. The
sessions will be webcast live at http://webtv.un.org/live.
Further information about the
session is available on the Web page for the session.
Information about media accreditation
is also available on-line.
The Committee is scheduled to
publish its findings on the respective States on 3 October 2019, and to hold a
press conference on the same day (to be confirmed).
ENDS
Background
The Committee on the Rights of theChild monitors States parties’ adherence to the Convention on the Rights of theChild and its Optional Protocols on involvement of children in armed conflict,
on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on a
communications procedure. The Convention to date has 196 States parties. The
Committee is made up of 18 members who are independent human rights experts
drawn from around the world, who serve in their personal capacity and not as
representatives of States parties. The Committee’s concluding observations are
an independent assessment of States’ compliance with their human rights
obligations under the Treaty.
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the UN Human Rights Office Media Section at +41 (0) 22 928 9855 or by e-mail to
media@ohchr.org.
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