8 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS REPORT OF ISRAEL
03 June 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the combined second, third and fourth periodic report of Israel on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Eviatar Manor, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Office at Geneva, introducing the report, said Israel’s primary duty was to uphold and protect the life of its citizens. The Government endeavoured to comply with its international obligations, to ensure the welfare of its entire population, and basic human rights and humanitarian consideration for all…
8 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS REPORTS OF RWANDA
31 May 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic report of Rwanda on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also reviewed the two initial reports of Rwanda on the Optional Protocols to the Convention: on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on involvement of children in armed conflict.
Introducing the reports of Rwanda, Zaina Nyiramatama, Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Children of Rwanda, said that significant…
8 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS REPORTS OF ARMENIA
30 May 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic report of Armenia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also reviewed the two initial reports of Armenia on the Optional Protocols to the Convention: on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Deputy Minister of Justice of Armenia, introducing the reports, said that Armenia had adopted in 2012 the new strategic plan…
8 years 2 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD OPENS ITS SIXTY-THIRD SESSION
27 May 2013
Meeting Summaries
Committee Elects New Bureau with Kirsten Sandberg as its Chairperson
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its sixty-third session, hearing an address by Wan-Hea Lee, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda, elected a new bureau with Kirsten Sandberg of Norway as its new Chairperson, and heard the solemn declaration of seven newly elected members.
In her statement, Ms. Lee congratulated the Committee on the adoption…
8 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD CONCLUDES SIXTY-SECOND SESSION
01 February 2013
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports from Guyana, United States, Malta, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niue, Philippines and Slovakia
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its sixty-second session and adopted its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports presented by Guyana, United States, Malta, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niue, Philippines and Slovakia under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols.
The Committee’s concluding observations and recommendations will be available on the Committee’…
8 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD EXAMINES REPORTS OF SLOVAKIA ON SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT
23 January 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial report of Slovakia on its implementation of the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the initial report on the implementation of the provisions of the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
Fedor Rosocha, Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, introduced the two reports presented…
8 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS INITIAL REPORT OF NIUE VIA TELECONFERENCE
22 January 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial report of Niue on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Committee for the first time used teleconferencing technology to examine the report of this remote small island state with a population of 1,700.
O’Love T. Jacobsen, High Commissioner of Niue to New Zealand, said that Niue was an isolated, remote island, the largest coral atoll in the world with a population of 1,700 living in 13 villages on the peripheries of the island. It…
8 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS REPORT OF THE PHILIPPINES ON THE SALE OF CHILDREN AND CHILD PROSTITUTION
22 January 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon reviewed the initial report of the Philippines on how that country implements the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Introducing the report, Corazon Juliano Soliman, Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and Chairperson of the Council for the Welfare of Children of the Philippines, said that the Government had increased the resources…
8 years 6 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD HEARS REPORTS OF BURKINA FASO ON SALE OF CHILDREN AND ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT
21 January 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial reports of Burkina Faso on the implementation of the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the implementation of the provisions of the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
Dieudonné Marie Désiré Manly, Technical Advisor, Ministry for Social Action and National Solidarity of Burkina Faso, introducing the…
8 years 7 months ago
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD HEARS THE REPORT OF GUINEA
18 January 2013
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Guinea on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Hadja Diaka Diakite, Minister for Social Affairs and Advancement of Women and Children of Guinea, spoke about the achievements in the protection and implementation of the fundamental rights of children in Guinea and noted the harmonization of the domestic legislation with the Convention and the enactment of the Law on the Guinean Child. The institutional framework had been strengthened and progress…
