RECOMMENDATION
Follow up to the Committee’s previous concluding observations and recommendations on the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
| Recommendation No: | CRC-69 |
|---|---|
| Recommendation Year: | 2016 |
| Recommendation Text: | Follow up to the Committee’s previous concluding observations and recommendations on the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. |
| Convention/Treaty Body: | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| Information Deadline: | |
| Implementation Deadline: |
Related Human Rights Articles
CRC Article 35 - States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form.
Stakeholders
Ministry of Gender, Family & Social Services (MoGFSS)
Relevant Articles of the Constitution
35A - Children and young people are entitled to special protection and special assistance from the family, the community and the State. Children and young people shall not be harmed, sexually abused, or discriminated against in any manner and shall be free from unsuited social and economic exploitation. No person shall obtain undue benefit from their labour.
Relevant Legislation Articles
10 - Punishment given in schools must be appropriate to the age of the child and should not be physically or psychologically harmful to the child.
24 - All the children shall be treated equally and humanely and preference must be given to children in the provision of various services. Further, protection and assistance shall be given to children and expectant mothers during land, sea and air travel in the general pursuits of the community. Children under the age of 12 years shall be given special concession on land, sea, air and transportation fares.
9 - A special procedure must be established for the investigation, adjudication of and the imposition of punishment, wherever necessary, for offences committed by children. Further, preference shall be given to rehabilitation of children, who are considered minor in Shari’ah, without imposing punishment on such children.
Relevant Regulations & Policies
No Relevant Regulations & Policies
Relevant Articles of other Human Rights Conventions
ICCPR Article 8 - The freedom from slavery and servitude.
ICESCR Article 10 - The right to family protections, i.e., marriage only by consent, leave for new mothers and protection of children from exploitation.
CEDAW Article 6 - Article 6
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to suppress all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of prostitution of women.
CRC Article 36 - States Parties shall protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of the child's welfare.
CRPD Article 16 - Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse
CEDAW Article 5 - Article 5
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures: (a) To modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women;
(b) To ensure that family education includes a proper understanding of maternity as a social function and the recognition of the common responsibility of men and women in the upbringing and development of their children, it being understood that the interest of the children is the primordial consideration in all cases.
CEDAW Article 15 - Article 15
1. States Parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.
2. States Parties shall accord to women, in civil matters, a legal capacity identical to that of men and the same opportunities to exercise that capacity. In particular, they shall give women equal rights to conclude contracts and to administer property and shall treat them equally in all stages of procedure in courts and tribunals.
3. States Parties agree that all contracts and all other private instruments of any kind with a legal effect which is directed at restricting the legal capacity of women shall be deemed null and void.
4. States Parties shall accord to men and women the same rights with regard to the law relating to the movement of persons and the freedom to choose their residence and domicile.
CRPD Article 14 - Liberty and security of person
CRPD Article 15 - Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
ICERD Article 5 - Non-discrimination; equality before
the law; general policy
ICERD Article 7 - Preventive Measures
CAT Article 10 - CAT Article 10
1. Each State Party shall ensure that education and information regarding the prohibition against torture are fully included in the training of law enforcement personnel, civil or military, medical personnel, public officials and other persons who may be involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment.
2. Each State Party shall include this prohibition in the rules or instructions issued in regard to the duties and functions of any such person.
CAT Article 11 - CAT Article 11
Each State Party shall keep under systematic review interrogation rules, instructions, methods and practices as well as arrangements for the custody and treatment of persons subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment in any territory under its jurisdiction, with a view to preventing any cases of torture.
Related Recommendations of other Treaty Bodies
CEDAW - 25 - CEDAW
ICCPR-17(a) - ICCPR
ICCPR-17(b) - ICCPR
ICCPR-17(c) - ICCPR
ICCPR-17(d) - ICCPR
ICCPR-17(e) - ICCPR
Related SDGs
No Related SDGs
Categories
Abduction, sale and trafficking