UN child rights experts issue findings on
Senegal, Iran, Latvia, Oman, France, Ireland, Peru, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Maldives, Brunei, Benin, Kenya, Zambia
Child rights
04 February 2016
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GENEVA (4 February 2016) – The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its findings on the following countries which it examined during its 11-29 January session in Geneva: Senegal, Iran, Latvia, Oman, France, Ireland, Peru, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Maldieves, Brunei, Benin, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child is composed of 18 international independent experts, who monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified to date by 196 States. They also monitor implementation of the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (OPSC) and the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC), ratified by 171 States and 162 States respectively.
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