Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | A Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child |
| Description/subject: | | "A step by step guide for NGOs preparing an alternative report for the Committee on the Rights of the Child, an outline of the procedures concerning NGO presentations at the pre-sessional meetings, procedures for follow-up action and background to the work of the NGO Group..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
| Description/subject: | | Monitors the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Receives and examines State Party reports. Search in OBL for CRC to access the various reports, statements and concluding observations when the CRC examined Myanmar's initial report. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| Description/subject: | | The NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child is a coalition of international non-governmental organisations, which work together to facilitate the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It was originally formed in 1983 when members of the NGO Group were actively involved in the drafting of the Convention. An organisational brochure is available [html format].
The NGO Group has a Liaison Unit that supports participation of the NGOs, particularly national coalitions, in the reporting precess to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as well as other activities to ensure the implementation of the Convention. One important area is the management of Alternative Reports that have been submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (as per Article 45a).
The NGO Group has the following aims:
* To be an advocate on behalf of children by raising awareness about the Convention.
* To promote and facilitate, through specific programmes and actions, the full implementation of the Convention.
* To facilitate a flow of information between the Committee on the Rights of the Child, concerned United Nations bodies and the NGO community.
* To facilitate co-operation and information sharing regarding the monitoring and implementation of the Convention within the NGO community.
* To draw up policies and strategies and undertake action in fields covered by the Convention
* To contribute to the monitoring work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
* To facilitate the creation and support the work of National Coalitions for the Convention on the Rights of the
Child. |
| Language: | | English |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Thailand’s Second State Party Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child |
| Date of publication: | | 07 June 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | Thailand’s Second Report
On
The Implementation of the Convention
On the Rights of the Child
Submitted to
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child...
by
The Sub-committee on the Rights of the Child;
The National Youth Commission;
The Office of Welfare Promotion, Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups;
Ministry of Social Development and Human Security...
Contents:
Introduction;
1. General Measures of Implementation;
2. Definition of the Child;
3. General Principles;
4. Civil Rights and Freedoms;
5. Family Environment and Alternative Care;
6. Basic Health and Welfare;
7. Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities;
8. Special Protection Measures. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations (CRC/C/83/Add.15) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (923K), Word (884K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 August 2004 |
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| Title: | | CRC 2004: Committee on the Rights of the Child Considers Second Periodic Report of Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 26 May 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | "The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second
periodic report of Myanmar on that country's efforts to implement the
provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child...." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations (Press Office, Geneva) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 26 May 2004 |
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| Title: | | CRC2004: Concluding Remarks by
His Excellency U Mya Than,
Ambassador/Permanent Representative
of the Union of Myanmar at the 36th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the
Child |
| Date of publication: | | 26 May 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | "...I should like to express the most sincere thanks of the Myanmar delegation for the businesslike and fruitful manner in which the discussions in the Committee have been conducted today on the developments in Myanmar's implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Mr. Chairman,
At today's session, we have covered very extensively on many issues relating to the rights of the child.
As I have already outlined earlier on, I wish to highlight positive factors or positive developments, on the one hand, and challenges, constraints and problems before us and our efforts to overcome them, on the other..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Mission, Geneva |
| Format/size: | | html (43K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 May 2004 |
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| Title: | | Wenn sich die Militärjunta um das Wohl der Kinder kümmert |
| Date of publication: | | April 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar gehört zu den Entwicklungsländern, die sich am meisten um das Wohlergehen der Kinder kümmern.“ Das Zitat stammt aus dem zweiten Bericht über die Situation der Kinder, welcher die burmesischen Behörden im kommenden Mai dem UN-Komitee über die Rechte des Kindes (CRC)vorlegen werden. Ganz offensichtlich scheuen sich die burmesischen Militärmachthaber, die das Land in Myanmar umgetauft haben, nicht vor dicken Lügen auf dem internationalen Parkett. Denn: Die Lage der Kinder und Jugendlichen in Burma ist katastrophal, meinten einhellig die Fachleute aus Kinderschutz- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen, die anfangs Februar 2004 in Genf darüber berieten, wie der zunehmenden Ausbeutung von Kindern in Burma ein Riegel geschoben werden kann. |
| Author/creator: | | Christine Plüss |
| Language: | | Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | akte |
| Format/size: | | html (5.52 KB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 May 2004 |
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| Title: | | Committee on the Rights of the Child: Myanmar's 2nd periodic report |
| Date of publication: | | 05 November 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | Originally submitted by the SPDC on 11 June 2002, the current version was edited by the UN and issued in November 2003. Go to the Online Burma Library at http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=712&lo=d&sl=0 for Myanmar's initial report to the CRC, the Committee's Concluding Observations following its consideration of that report (January 1997), Summary Records of the session and the text of the Convention. There also are links to the web-pages of the Committee and the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (which supports those taking part in the reporting process to the CRC, including the preparation of Alternative/Shadow Reports). Reports and statement detailing violations of children's rights in Myanmar may be found at http://www.burmalibrary.org -- search for child*. The 2nd periodic report will be considered at the 36th session (May-June 2004). |
| Author/creator: | | SPDC |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations |
| Format/size: | | pdf (255K), Word (451K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/898586b1dc7b4043c1256a450044f331/357a104dd2a37d04c1256e0c0037e59a/$FILE/G0344866.doc |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
| Date of publication: | | 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "Chapters inside include Article (1) to (40) of Convention on the Rights of the Child which are divided roughly four sections like: survival rights, Development rights, Protection rights and Participation rights of child." |
| Language: | | Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.49MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 February 2005 |
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| Title: | | Burma: Children's Rights and the Rule of Law |
| Date of publication: | | January 1997 |
| Description/subject: | | Submitted as an Alternative Report to the CRC. Burma acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991. Since then, however, there has been little progress towards the implementation of the convention, and the underlying problems which impede implementation have not changed. These include a total lack of the rule of law and accountability of the government, as well as draconian restrictions on freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly which prevent local reporting and monitoring of the human rights situation of children. Events of October and December1996 in Burma, which saw hundreds of high school and university students take to the streets to demand the protection of their rights, especially the right to form student unions, highlight the urgent need for reform. Over three hundred students and youths were arrested during the December demonstrations, at least fifty of whom remain unaccounted for. . . |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Watch |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Thailand's 1st State Party Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child |
| Date of publication: | | 30 September 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | I. GENERAL MEASURES OF IMPLEMENTATION 1 - 75:-
A. Report preparation and dissemination of the
Convention 2 - 16;
B. The promotion of child rights 17 - 34;
C. Implementing the provisions of the Convention 35 - 75...
II. DEFINITION OF A "CHILD" 76 - 122:-
A. The meaning of the word "child" 76 - 81;
B. Age and criminal responsibility 82 - 88;
C. Counselling services 89 - 95;
D. Age of compulsory education 96 - 99;
E. Age of sexual consent 100 - 103;
F. Age of marriage 104 - 106;
G. Age of military conscription 107 - 108;
H. Age and imprisonment 109 - 112;
I. Age for admission to employment 113 - 119;
J. Discrimination between boys and girls 120 - 122...
III. GENERAL PRINCIPLES 123 - 142:-
A. Non-discrimination 124 - 125;
B. Best interests of the child 126 - 127;
C. The rights to life, survival and development 128;
D. Respect for children's viewpoints 129 - 142...
IV. CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS 143 - 193:-
A. Nationality and birth registration 143 - 150;
B. Publication and distribution of children's
literature 151 - 154;
C. Protecting children from media violence 155 - 160;
D. Child protection procedures 161 - 167;
E. Investigation and interrogation procedures
in child cruelty cases and its prevention 168 - 182;
F. Corporal punishment 183 - 193...
V. THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND RELATED FACTORS 194 - 311:-
A. Children in impoverished families 196 - 204;
B. Children born out of wedlock 205 - 216;
C. Children of separated or divorced parents 217 - 229;
D. Child neglect, child abandonment, child
abuse and family violence 230 - 278;
E. Children in other types of care 279 - 295;
F. Children with disabilities 296 - 311...
VI. BASIC HEALTH AND WELFARE SERVICES 312 - 341...
VII. EDUCATION, LEISURE AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES 342 - 372:-
A. Education 342 - 354;
B. Leisure time 355 - 365;
C. Cultural activities 366 - 372...
VIII. SPECIAL PROTECTION MEASURES 373 - 529:-
A. Children in emergency situations 373 - 389;
B. Children in conflict with the law 390 - 434;
C. Children in situations of exploitation 435 - 514;
D. Children of minority or ethnic groups 515 - 529...
IX. CONCLUSION 530 - 532. |
| Language: | | English, Francais, French |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations (CRC/C/11/Add.13) |
| Format/size: | | html (299K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CRC.C.11.Add.13.Fr?Opendocument (Francais) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 August 2004 |
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| Title: | | The Situation of Children in Burma |
| Date of publication: | | 01 May 1996 |
| Description/subject: | | "[This report was prepared as a submission to the UN Committee which is reviewing SLORC’s observance of the Convention on Rights of the Child, which SLORC ratified in 1991. Under the terms of the Convention, SLORC was required to submit a report to the Committee in 1993, but did not do so until September 1995. Their case comes before the Committee in Oct. 1996 or Jan. 1997. This report was submitted together with a 140-page Annex of excerpts from KHRG reports relating to children. It is reproduced here for general use.]
This summary is intended for consideration by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. It has been prepared partly in response to the report filed by the State Law & Order Restoration Council (SLORC), Burma’s ruling military junta. It does not contain a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of SLORC’s report, but instead attempts to summarize some of the worst problems facing Burma’s children today and point out some of the most glaring fallacies in the SLORC report. All of the observations and quotations included here are taken from our 4 years of living among and interviewing villagers, refugees and the internally displaced.
In Burma the Tatmadaw (Army) exercises absolute power of life and death over every civilian, including children. Soldiers act with complete impunity, particularly in rural areas, and are not answerable to any laws which exist on paper in Rangoon. Children are often shot on sight in free-fire zones, tortured or executed as "suspected rebels", used for forced labour, forcibly conscripted into the Army and otherwise subject to direct abuse. They also suffer from the destruction of the village environment and the economy under SLORC policies, which are leading to widespread malnutrition and the death of children, the lack of educational opportunities, and other factors which rob them of a childhood..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG Articles and Papers) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
| Date of publication: | | 20 November 1989 |
| Description/subject: | | Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989; entry into force 2 September 1990. For the jurisprudence of the Convention, visit the site of CRC Committee. Myanmar accession: 15 July 1991. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | United Nations |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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