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…

GENEVA (22 November 2012) – While welcoming the ceasefire which started last night, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on Thursday expressed its “deep concern at the devastating and lasting impact the crisis in Gaza and Israel is having on children.” “This impact extends from…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Liberia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Namibia, Austria, Albania and Canada The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning concluded its sixty-first session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on reports…

Issues Concluding Observations on Algeria, Australia, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Nepal and Viet Nam The Committee on the Rights of the Child today published its concluding observations and recommendations on 11 country reports from seven countries: six on the main Convention (Algeria, Australia,…

Issues Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Madagascar, Togo, Thailand and the Cook Islands The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded its fifty-eighth session on 3 February, adopting its report and issuing its concluding observations…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Italy, Republic of Korea, Syria, Iceland, Panama, Seychelles and Sweden The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its three-week fifty-eighth session, adopting its report and issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of…

Committee reviewed the reports of Bahrain, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt and Finland The Committee on the Rights of the Child on 17 June concluded its three-week fifty-seventh session, adopting its report and issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on 9 reports…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Denmark, Afghanistan, Belarus, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, New Zealand, Ukraine, Singapore and Mexico The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its three-week-long fifty-sixth session and issued its concluding observations and…

Urges States to Outlaw Recruitment of Child Soldiers NEW YORK – The Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Ms. Yanghee Lee*, yesterday called upon Somalia and the United States to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The two are the only countries that have not…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Guatemala, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sri Lanka and Sudan The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its three-week fifty-fifth session, adopting its report and issuing its concluding…