UN Child Rights Committee issues findings

UN Child Rights Committee issues findings on Benin, El Salvador, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mauritania, Niger and Saudi Arabia

GENEVA (October 11, 2018) — The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session from September 17 to October 5: Benin, El Salvador, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mauritania, Niger and Saudi Arabia

The findings contain positive aspects of how the respective States are implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocols, highlight matters of concern and make recommendations.

The findings, officially known as concluding observations, may be found here.

The next session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child will be from 14 January, 2019 to 1 February to review the following countries: Bahrain, Belgium, Czechia, Guinea, Italy, Japan, and Syrian Arab Republic. More information may be found here.

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