20 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child has considered the combined third and fourth periodic report of Madagascar on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the...

19 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the combined third and fourth periodic report of Myanmar on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the...

18 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the reports of Azerbaijan on how that country is implementing the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the...

ADDIS ABABA (18 January 2012) – The UN Human Rights office, in cooperation with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights convened a two day-meeting of the Special Procedures of the United...

18 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on how that country is implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention...

17 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the fourth periodic report of Azerbaijan on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

General information A meeting of States parties will take place in New York (NLB Conference Room 1) on 17 January 2012 at 10 a.m. The purpose of this extraordinary meeting is to conduct two by...

16 January 2012 Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Members of the Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 59th session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child...

16 January 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its fifty-ninth session, hearing an address by Kyung-wha Kang, the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights...