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Convention on the Rights of the Child still incomp

The continual failure of governments to adequately address the climate crisis constitutes a violation of children’s rights and Pacific youth know this better than most.

17 March 2021 MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Bulgaria, Marshall Islands, United States and Croatia. Speaking on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Bulgaria were China, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Russian Federation, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Nations Childrens Fund, and Venezuela. The following civil society organizations took the floor on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of ...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 18 January 2021 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online limited eighty-sixth session. Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the Committee, said the Committee had been working on the Third Optional Protocol, and General Comment 25, and would spare no efforts to discharge its mandate. Because of COVID-19, pre-existing problems had worsened. Child poverty was increasing and the closure of schools had had a devastating impact, in...