General comments and recommendations
General comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations
Published
20 June 2017
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CRC/C/GC/21
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Children's rights
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Inputs received
In total, 327 children and young people from 32 countries were consulted in seven regional consultations. Civil society representatives responded to a general call for submissions, and an advanced draft was shared with all States parties in October 2016. These submissions are available below.
States and international organizations:
- Algeria
- Australia
- Denmark
- Finland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Mexico
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Switzerland
- Council of Europe
Civil society:
- Escuela Móvil Querétaro, Banco de Alimentos AlVIDA, IAP
- Aoife Daly, University of Liverpool
- APON ODIC
- Asociación “Niñas y niños del Fortín”
- Bahay Tuluyan
- Bureau International Catholique de l’Enfance
- Campanha Nacional Criança Não é de Rua y Comitê Nacional das Redes de Atenção às Crianças e Adolescentes em situação de rua
- Central Child Welfare Board and Street Child of Nepal
- Centre for applied studies in children and justice, Ceara Public University
- Child to Child
- Children Agenda Forum
- Comité de los Derechos del Niño del Uruguay
- Comité de los Derechos del Niño del Uruguay (Niñas)
- Child Rights International Network
- Daniel Stoecklin, University of Geneva
- Defence for Children International Yemen
- Defensoria Pública do Estado de São Paulo
- Dynamo international - Street workers network
- FIAN Delhi
- Glad’s House
- International Labour Organization
- Instituto Generación de Lima Perú
- It’s a Penalty Campaign and Happy Child International
- Kaleidoscope Human Rights Foundation
- Lorraine van Blerk, University of Dundee
- University of Brighton, ChildHope UK and Pendekezo Letu
- Fundación Juconi
- Justice for Children and Youth
- Civil Society Organizations of Madhya Pradesh, India
- Marit Ursin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- NIWCYD "BACHPAN" Bhopal
- Observatorio sobre Latinoamérica SELVAS
- Penal Reform International
- La Plateforme Nationale de Protection des Migrants du Maroc
- Railway Children
- Retrak
- Safe Child Africa
- Santosh Kumar Mishra, S. N. D. T. Women's University
- Street Child of Liberia and Street Child of Sierra Leone
- Stahili Foundation and Lori E. Talsky Center for Human Rights of Women and Children at Michigan State University College of Law
- Terre des hommes Albania
- Human Rights Clinic, University of New South Wales
- UP! International
- World Federation of the Deaf
- Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action
- Regional consultation with children in street situations in Africa
- Regional consultation with children in street situations in Brazil
- Regional consultation with children in street situations in Central America
- Regional consultation with children in street situations in Europe
- Regional consultation with children in street situations in South Asia