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The full list of Alternative Reports submitted by NGOs for the upcoming 60th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The session takes place in Geneva from 29 May to 15 June this year.

http://www.crin.org/Alternative-Reports/session.asp?CRCID=66

Alternative Reports submitted by NGOs to the Committee on the Rights of the Child are made available on the CRIN website in partnership with the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The reports can also be searched by country, Committee session or by organisation. Note that alternative reports are posted on the CRIN website as they are received.

CRC 60th Session

Below are the Alternative Reports that have been submitted by NGOs for the 60th Session, which opens on 29 May in Geneva.

Alternative Reports submitted on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC):

Algeria

• The Algerian Network for the Defence of Children (NADA Network) (Algeria)
  Submission to the Committee / In french
• International Disability Alliance
  - "Suggestions for disability-relevant questions to be included in
  the list of issues for pre-sessional working group"
  - "Recommendations to the Committee"
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
  Submission to the Committee

Australia

• International Baby Food Action Network
  "The Situation of Infant and Young Child Feeding in Australia"
• Concerned Australians
  Children of the Intervention 
• Child Rights Taskforce, Australia
  "Listen to Children, 2011 Child Rights NGO Report, Australia
• International Disability Alliance
  - "Suggestions for disability-relevant questions to be included
  in the list of issues for pre-sessional working group"
  - "Recommendations to the Committee"
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
  Submission to the Committee
• The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
  Submission to the Committee (regarding Australia's Compliance with Article 7 of the CRC)

Cyprus

• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
  Submission to the Committee
• International Disability Alliance
  "Suggestions for disability-relevant questions to be included
  in the list of issues for pre-sessional working group"
  - "Recommendations to the Committee"
• Pancyprian Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Welfare of Children (PCCPWC)
  Submission to the Committee
• Hope for Children
  - Submission to the Committee (pre-session issues)
  - "Recommendations to the Committee"

Greece

• Human Rights Watch
  Submission to the Committee
• International Baby Food Action Network
  "The Situation of Infant and Young Child Feeding in Greece"
• Greek Helsinki Monitor
  Submission to the Committee
• Greek NGO Network for Child Rights
  Submission to the Committee
• European Roma Rights Centre
  Submission to the Committee
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
  Submission to the Committee
• International Disability Alliance
  "Recommendations to the Committee"

Turkey

• International Disability Alliance
  "Recommendations to the Committee"

Vietnam

• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
  Submission to the Committee
• International Disability Alliance
  - "Suggestions for disability-relevant questions to be included
  in the list of issues for pre-sessional working group"
  - "Recommendations to the Committee"
• International Baby Food Action Network
  "The Situation of Infant and Young Child Feeding in Vietnam"
• Human Rights Watch
  "The Illegal Arrest, Arbitrary Detention and Torture
  of Children in drug Detention Centres in Vietnam"

Alternative Reports submitted on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (OPSC):

Australia

• Child Rights Taskforce, Australia
  "Listen to Children, OPSC, Australia"

Nepal

• CRC Sub-Committee, Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee, Nepal
  Submission to the Committee

Alternative Reports submitted on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC):

Australia

• TRIAL (Swiss Association Against Impunity)
  Submission to the Committee
• Child Soldiers International
  Submission to the Committee
• Child Task Force, Australia
  Listen to Children, OPAC, Australia

Greece

• TRIAL (Swiss Association Against Impunity)
  "Failure to properly prosecute those responsible for war crime of
  involving children in armed conflict on basis of universal jurisdiction"

Further Information

• Visit our session page.
• Visit OHCHR's page on the 60th session
  (includes the review timetable)
• Read all our coverage on the CRC
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Previous NGO Alternative Report items

• 09/01/2012: CRC 59th Session: NGO Alternative Reports submitted
• 20/09/2011: IRAN: Human Rights Committee Submission on Inhuman Sentencing

Organisation Contact Details:

Committee on the Rights of the Child

Last updated 18/05/2012 09:36:40

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