RECOMMENDATION
The Committee draws the State party’s attention to General Comment No 17 (2013) on the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts and urges it to restart and protect all art, music and performing arts classes that have been stopped and to expand the existing avenues for children to enjoy leisure and learn about cultural traditions.
Recommendation No: CRC-65
Recommendation Year: 2016
Recommendation Text: The Committee draws the State party’s attention to General Comment No 17 (2013) on the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts and urges it to restart and protect all art, music and performing arts classes that have been stopped and to expand the existing avenues for children to enjoy leisure and learn about cultural traditions.
Convention/Treaty Body: Convention on the Rights of the Child 
Information Deadline:
Implementation Deadline:
Related Human Rights Articles
CRC Article 31 - 1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. 2. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.
Stakeholders
Ministry of Education (MoE) | Ministry of Youth, Sports & Community Empowerment (MoYSCE)
Relevant Articles of the Constitution
39A - Everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life of the nation, and to benefit from literary and artistic endeavours.
39B - The State shall promote education, culture, literature and the arts, within the limits of its resources.
Relevant Legislation Articles
No Relevant Legislation Articles
Relevant Regulations & Policies
No Relevant Regulations & Policies
Relevant Articles of other Human Rights Conventions
ICESCR Article 15 - The right of everyone to take part in cultural life and to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.
CRPD Article 30 - Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport
ICCPR Article 27 - The right, for members of religious, ethnic or linguistic minorities, to enjoy their culture, practice their religion and use their language.
ICESCR Article 13 - The right to education
ICESCR Article 14 - States shall make primary education compulsory and free of charge,
CEDAW Article 10 - Article 10 States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (a) The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training; (b) Access to the same curricula, the same examinations, teaching staff with qualifications of the same standard and school premises and equipment of the same quality; (c) The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods; (d ) The same opportunities to benefit from scholarships and other study grants; (e) The same opportunities for access to programmes of continuing education, including adult and functional literacy programmes, particulary those aimed at reducing, at the earliest possible time, any gap in education existing between men and women; (f) The reduction of female student drop-out rates and the organization of programmes for girls and women who have left school prematurely; (g) The same Opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education; (h) Access to specific educational information to help to ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning.
CEDAW Article 13 - Article 13 States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in other areas of economic and social life in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, the same rights, in particular: (a) The right to family benefits; (b) The right to bank loans, mortgages and other forms of financial credit; (c) The right to participate in recreational activities, sports and all aspects of cultural life.
CEDAW Article 14 - Article 14 1. States Parties shall take into account the particular problems faced by rural women and the significant roles which rural women play in the economic survival of their families, including their work in the non-monetized sectors of the economy, and shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the application of the provisions of the present Convention to women in rural areas. 2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, that they participate in and benefit from rural development and, in particular, shall ensure to such women the right: (a) To participate in the elaboration and implementation of development planning at all levels; (b) To have access to adequate health care facilities, including information, counselling and services in family planning; (c) To benefit directly from social security programmes; (d) To obtain all types of training and education, formal and non-formal, including that relating to functional literacy, as well as, inter alia, the benefit of all community and extension services, in order to increase their technical proficiency; (e) To organize self-help groups and co-operatives in order to obtain equal access to economic opportunities through employment or self employment; (f) To participate in all community activities; (g) To have access to agricultural credit and loans, marketing facilities, appropriate technology and equal treatment in land and agrarian reform as well as in land resettlement schemes; (h) To enjoy adequate living conditions, particularly in relation to housing, sanitation, electricity and water supply, transport and communications.
ICERD Article 5 - Non-discrimination; equality before the law; general policy
Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
No Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
Related SDGs
No Related SDGs
Categories
Rest, leisure, recreation and cultural and artistic activities