Summary:

This is a compilation of the daily updates that were produced during the UN Working Group meeting on the communications procedure. The meeting took place from 16 to 18 December in Geneva.

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Updates from Working Group Meeting

• 18 December: Meeting closes
• NGO Closing Statement
  
• 16 December: Opening
• 16 December: Topic 1: Reasons and timing
• 16 December: Topic 2: Existing mechanisms
• 16 December: Topic 3: Efficiency in protection
• 17 December: Topic 4: Unique rights
• 17 December: Topic 5: Implications of a procedure
  
  

Read statements: View Experts' Submissions (OHCHR website)

• 15 Dec: New Programme of work
• NGO Submission 
• Submission by Children's Ombudspersons
• Submission by Marta Santos Pais
  
• Submission made by expert Ms. Nevena Vučković
  
• Submission made by expert Mr. Peter Newell
• Submission made by expert Yanghee Lee
• Submission made by expert Ms. Najat Maalla M'jid
• Submission made by expert Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

• Submission made by expert Jean Zermatten

Previous Conference Report items

• 24/11/2009: CRC20: Draft recommendations from Committee on the Rights of the Child event
• 27/10/2009: CHILD FRIENDLY JUSTICE: Commentary from Judge at global summit
• 06/10/2009: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: ECPAT International Report of the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children & Adolescents
• 24/09/2009: ARMED CONFLICT: Children as Zones of Peace: Mainstreaming the OPCRC-AC in the Southeast Asian Region
• 10/09/2009: INDIA: Children and Governance - Holding the State Accountable

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