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In Dialogue with Tunisia, Committee on Rights of Child welcomes positive steps and asks about corporal punishment
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Committee Experts Congratulate Tunisia for Being the First Nation Outside Europe to Sign the Lanzarote Convention
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fourth to sixth periodic report of Tunisia on how it implements the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, underlining the positive steps taken by Tunisia in the field of human rights, notably those of children, and asking about corporal punishment, among other topics.
Committee Experts congratulated Tunisia for its work on children’s rights and said they were particularly impressed that Tunisia had been the first nation outside Europe to sign the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote Convention on sexual exploitation and abuse of children. They noted that earlier this month, the non-governmental organization Human R
ICRC's Physical Rehabilitation Programme in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, provided spinal cord-injured Mohammad with physical rehabilitation services for easier daily living to help him regain his independence.
Background and Overview
In April 2009, the UNHCR issued a 35-page booklet entitled “UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs for Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea”.
UNHCR further published the second Guidelines on 20 April 2011. This 37-page document was essentially a replica of the first publication in terms of format, language and substantive contents albeit few, insignificant and inconsequential, updates.
UNHCR’s purported purpose in issuing these guidelines was to “assist decision-makers, including UNHCR staff, Governments and private practitioners in assessing the protection needs of Eritrean asylum-seekers”. The organization flaunted these guidelines as “authoritative legal interpretations of the refugee criteria in respect of specific groups on the basis of objectively assessed social, political, economic, security, human rights and humanitarian conditions in the country of origin concerned”. It further asserted tha