Children's rights: standards and mechanisms
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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.
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Children's rights: standards and mechanisms, The Convention, the Committee, procedure, backround and guideline documents, Migrants' rights: other relevant international and regional standards and mechanisms, Trafficking: other relevant standards and mechanisms
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"The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, congratulates the Government of Myanmar for ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC).
Myanmar’s Union Minister for International Cooperation, His Excellency Mr. U Kyaw Tin, deposited the accession instrument during a ceremony that took place on the margins of the 74th General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York.
“The international engagement taken today by the Government of Myanmar to better protect its children is a welcome step. It is a commitment to put in place all the necessary measures to protect them from recruitment and use by both its armed forces and armed groups active in the country”, said Virginia Gamba.
Provisions on the demobilization and reintegration of all children under 18 and children presumed present in the ranks of Myanmar’s armed forces are also included in OPAC, a commitment already under implementation through the Security Council-mandated Joint Action Plan signed with the United Nations in 2012.
The Special Representative calls on the Government of Myanmar to swiftly translate this commitment into tangible measures for the protection of boys and girls and to end and prevent all six grave violations against children, including the killing and maiming of children and rape and other forms of sexual violence..."
Source/publisher:
"Mizzima" (Myanmar)
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-30
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Individual Documents
Category:
Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: resources and organisations, Children's rights: standards and mechanisms
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A three-year-old girl who it is alleged was raped at her nursery in Myanmar has given evidence via video link at a trial in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
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"The case of the toddler, who by law cannot be named, has caused outrage in the country. Campaigners have given her the name "Victoria".
Police say the attack took place in May. A school employee is under arrest charged with raping her.
But DNA evidence has been inconclusive and nursery staff dispute it was him.
Police say a medical examination carried out after Victoria's mother had noticed her injuries and taken her to hospital showed the girl had been sexually assaulted.
'Nursery rape' of toddler leaves Myanmar reeling
There have been widespread protests calling for justice for Victoria and for wider action to arrest an alarming rise in reported sexual assault, particularly towards children.
Myanmar (also called Burma) is still a predominantly rural country and in some communities village elders oversee complaints - the alleged victim can even be encouraged to marry her attacker.
Male rape is not even a recognised crime..."
Source/publisher:
"BBC News"
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-11
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: standards and mechanisms
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U Kyaw Tin, Union minister of International Cooperation, submitted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union) on Wednesday.
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"“The objective of the protocol is to protect children from being recruited and used in armed conflicts. It is a very important international protocol in protecting children’s rights,” he said.
In ratifying it, Myanmar would promise to protect children’s rights during armed conflicts in accordance with international law, he said.
“By entering into this protocol, we can promote Myanmar’s image in the international community, and it will help us remove our country’s name from the list of those that use child soldiers,” he said. It would also protect citizenship rights.
“We will have to implement legal arrangements and other plans, and educate children and other underage people about this,” he said.
He also said that appropriate plans are needed to release those children forcibly recruited as soldiers, he said.
“Appropriate support is needed for the physical and mental rehabilitation and re-entry into society of the released children,” said U Kyaw Tin..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Times"
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-31
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children, Children's rights: standards and mechanisms, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to the judiciary (commentaries)
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"An explosion killed a Rohingya boy and his father and severely wounded another adult in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township on Tuesday, according to a village official.
The victims were identified as Mohamad Shofi, 38, his son Husson, 8, and Mohammad Shazam, an adult of unknown age, according to Ah Lel Kyun village administrative official U Win Hla Tun. Mohammad Shazam was transported to Sittwe Hospital for medical treatment this morning, U Win Hla Tun said.
The victims were from Ah Lel Kyun, a village 8 km north of downtown Kyauktaw, said U Win Hla Tun. Ah Lel Kyun is a mixed community, with Buddhist and Muslim settlements within half a mile of one another, he said.
U Win Hla Tun said there had been armed conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) on Monday but that the situation had returned to normal. Then, unexpectedly, there was an explosion near the village on Tuesday morning. He could not clearly determine the nature of the blast that occurred near Mohamad Shofi’s home..."
Moe Myint
Source/publisher:
The Irrawaddy
Date of publication:
2019-05-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-23
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Children's rights: standards and mechanisms
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English
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''The Government of Malaysia should provide refugees with the rights to work and access education in order to end child marriage and ensure protections for refugee girls, said the Rohingya Women Development Network (RWDN) and Fortify Rights today.
Malaysia Foreign Minister Saiffudin Abdullah said on Tuesday that the government is considering options to provide refugees with access to public schools, hospitals, and employment.
“Children should be in school, not forced into marriage,” said Sharifah Shakirah, founder and director of RWDN in Malaysia. “We encourage the Malaysian government to urgently ban child marriage and provide refugee families with legal access to jobs, schools, and health care, which would advance refugee and child rights.”
RWDN and Fortify Rights conducted 11 interviews in Malaysia and Bangladesh between 2018 and 2019 with Rohingya child brides, former child brides, family members of child brides, and men arranging to marry or married to child brides. During these interviews, Rohingya girls described situations of domestic servitude, beatings, and hopelessness in Malaysia. Rohingya families also cite economic hardship and insecurity as drivers of child marriage.
“I am physically and verbally abused by my husband,” a Rohingya refugee girl, 16, told RWDN and Fortify Rights in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 1, 2019. “I want an education. I want to be a teacher. I am not happy about getting married.”
Originally from Buthidaung Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the 16-year-old girl married a 24-year old Rohingya man in Malaysia on January 1, 2018. The girl’s family arranged the marriage due to financial difficulties. She told RWDN and Fortify Rights that she is now confined to a one-bedroom apartment in Kuala Lumpur where she cooks and cleans, describing slave-like conditions in a situation of domestic servitude...''
Source/publisher:
Fortify Rights
Date of publication:
2019-02-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-23
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State, 2019 - Burma/Myanmar Government sources (pages from "The Global New Light of Myanmar"), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Children's rights: standards and mechanisms
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English
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"After
seven
years of dialogue with Geneva Call on
international
humanitarian norms, a ground
-
breaking step has been
taken
by
the Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army
(KNU/KNLA). KNU/KNLA has signed
Geneva Call?s
Deed of Commitment
for the
Prohibition of
Sexual
violence in
Situations of
Armed
Conflict and
towards the
Elimination of
Gender
Discrimination
and the
Deed of Commitment
for the Protection of Children from the
Effects of
Armed
Conflict.
The ceremony
took place
in Pa?an in Karen/Kayin State
on 21 July 2013 and gathered
representatives of
the
senior
leadership
of the
KNU/KNLA
and
Government
officials,
as well as
representatives of the diplomatic
community,
NGOs and UN agencies..."
Source/publisher:
Appel de Geneve, Geneva Call
Date of publication:
2013-07-24
Date of entry/update:
2013-07-24
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Appel de Geneve, Geneva Call
Date of entry/update:
2013-07-24
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
Summary table of provisions of international humanitarian law and other provisions of
international law specifically applicable to children in war .....
Source/publisher:
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date of publication:
2002-12-31
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-23
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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"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.
Christine Plüss
Source/publisher:
akte
Date of publication:
2004-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2004-05-19
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Description:
The State Law and Order Restoration Council...
The Child Law...
(The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 9/93)-
The 11th Waning Day of 1st Waso, 1355 ME
(14 July, 1993)
Source/publisher:
State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication:
1993-07-14
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children's rights: standards and mechanisms, Children, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to children (texts), Burma/Myanmar laws, decrees and regulations (State Law and Order Restoration Council), 1993
Language:
English
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Description:
CRC/C/8/Add.9.
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1995-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Children's rights: standards and mechanisms
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English
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Description:
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.
Source/publisher:
United Nations
Date of publication:
1989-11-20
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children's rights: standards and mechanisms, Migrants' rights: other relevant international and regional standards and mechanisms, Trafficking: other relevant standards and mechanisms
Language:
English, Francais, Espanol, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
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