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General Assembly Distr.: General Sixty-First Session 9 November 2006 United Nations A/C.3/61/SR.15 General Assembly Distr.: General Sixty-first session 9 November 2006 Official Records Original: English Third Committee Summary record of the 15th meeting Held at Headquarters, New York, on Friday, 13 October 2006, at 10 a.m. Chairman: Mr. Al Bayati ..................................................... (Iraq) Contents Agenda item 63: Promotion and protection of the rights of children (continued) (a) Promotion and protection of the rights of children (continued) (b) Follow-up to the special session on children (continued) This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned within one week of the date of publication to the Chief of the Official Records Editing Section, room DC2-750, 2 United Nations Plaza, and incorporated in a copy of the record. Corrections will be issued after the end of the session, in a separate corrigendum for each Committee. 06-56656 (E) *0656656* A/C.3/61/SR.15 The meeting was called to order at 10.15 a.m. adequately equipped to handle the increased workload. The Secretariat of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) had Agenda item 63: Promotion and protection of the also been put under considerable pressure by the rights of children (continued) (A/61/303) additional workload. (a) Promotion and protection of the rights of 4. The Committee on the Rights of the Child was children (continued) (A/61/41 and Corr.1 and confident that the decision to meet in two chambers Add.1, 207, 275 and Corr.1 and 299) had served its main purpose of reducing the backlog of reports significantly. Twenty-four reports were (b) Follow-up to the special session on children currently pending consideration, and even a larger (continued) (A/61/270) number would be manageable. Three years previously, the time lag between the submission and the 1. Mr. Doek (Chairperson of the Committee on the consideration of reports had been two or more years, Rights of the Child) recalled that General Assembly but that had been reduced to one year or less. He resolution 59/261 had authorized the Committee on the therefore thanked the General Assembly for providing Rights of the Child to meet in two chambers, as a the opportunity to work in two chambers. Since 179 temporary and exceptional measure, in order to clear reports were now overdue but could be expected to be its backlog of reports. He was pleased to provide an submitted in the coming years, a decision might have assessment of the progress made over the past two to be taken in due course on whether to resume years, while drawing attention to the report on the working in two chambers. status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (A/61/207) and the biennial report of the Committee 5. He commended the contribution of the (A/61/41), the thematic focus of which was the trends independent expert on violence against children and his and challenges of the implementation process with team to the study on violence against children and respect to children affected by armed conflict. expressed gratitude for the support provided by regional and intergovernmental bodies, United Nations 2. The Committee on the Rights of the Child had agencies, non-governmental organizations and Member worked hard to enhance its methods of work and to States through their comprehensive responses to the dispel concerns raised over its innovative approach. questionnaire on that subject and crucial financial While its burden was considerable, the quality of its contributions. He fully supported the study’s work had been maintained and information exchanges recommendations and called on all Member States to between the two chambers had been successful. implement them, although he was aware that some Feedback from delegations, United Nations agencies States might need more time and support than others to and programmes and non-governmental organizations do so. It was equally important for Member States to had been positive and supportive and he thanked them support action at the United Nations level to combat for their contributions to the Committee’s work and violence against children by appointing a special governments for their national follow-up to its representative as a visible advocate for children recommendations. worldwide. 3. United Nations conference and document 6. On the issue of treaty-body reform, the processing services had had to redouble their efforts to Committee on the Rights of the Child would remain meet the increased demands placed on interpreters, committed to the efforts of the High Commissioner for press officers, précis-writers and others by the new Human Rights to improve current practices with a view approach. The document workload had roughly to achieving more harmonized working methods and doubled and had been subject to tight deadlines. greater effectiveness. Occasionally, delegations had had to be content with obtaining documents at the last moment and in a 7. Ms. Pohjankukka (Finland), speaking on behalf limited number of working languages. That issue of the European Union, said that the European Union would require careful scrutiny, were the Committee to was pleased that the reorganization of the work of the work in two chambers again at some point, as it was Committee on the Rights of the Child into two imperative that the relevant services should be chambers had reduced the backlog of reports, thereby 2 06-56656 A/C.3/61/SR.15 ensuring more timely consideration of States’ actions overdue in their reporting obligations, the Committee in the area of the promotion and protection of the rights sought to help them overcome the obstacles they faced of children, which was at the heart of the European through a number of approaches. Such an outreach Union’s human rights policy. strategy was highly productive, as it created a momentum for the implementation of the Convention. 8. Referring to paragraph 19 of the report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, she asked what 13. Mr. Tulbure (Moldova) said that the Convention specific measures were needed to ensure positive on the Rights of the Child, which had been adopted so reinforcement and enhanced cooperation with the enthusiastically, was the most widely violated United Nations system with regard to the monitoring international treaty in the world. Every five seconds, a and reporting of the rights of children affected by child died of hunger, malnutrition or disease. Millions armed conflict. She would also like to know how of children were victims of domestic violence. cooperation between the Committee and the Special Children were used as child soldiers, were left to Representative of the Secretary-General for Children languish in orphanages and detention centres, were and Armed Conflict could be further enhanced and forced to work, were sexually assaulted, were whether there was also room for cooperation with abandoned or had no access to education or health care. regional human rights monitoring mechanisms in that 14. He wondered how that situation could be regard. tolerated and whether such abuses were not crimes 9. She wished to know whether, as an outcome of its against humanity, as suggested by Prince Albert II of cooperation with the various human rights mechanisms Monaco at the special session of the General Assembly mentioned in paragraph 41 of the report, there were on children. In an ideal world, there would be a special any specific issues that the Committee on the Rights of international tribunal for crimes against children. An the Child wished to highlight in its future work. On the affordable alternative in the real world would be to matter of overdue reports, she asked what measures the establish a special section on children’s rights in the international community could take to ensure timely International Criminal Court and to encourage regional reporting by States parties. courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights, to open such sections. 10. Mr. Doek (Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child) drew attention to the Committee’s 15. The international community was aware that recommendations, which showed that the Optional there was still a long way to go to achieve full respect Protocol on the involvement of children in armed for children’s rights, but no more time could be lost. conflict sought to secure an international commitment What had been lost was a sense of urgency, expressed by States parties to preventing the recruitment and in time-bound targets for action. The study on violence involvement of children in hostilities. He expected to against children had generated considerable meet with the Special Representative of the Secretary- momentum, through regional consultations involving General in order to reinforce their cooperation and also the participation of children and young people and with members of the Security Council with a view to through a questionnaire which had garnered an the monitoring of situations of armed conflict in terms unprecedented response from Member States. The of compliance with the Optional Protocol. study contained not only an analysis of the various aspects of violence against children but also specific 11. With regard to specific issues to be highlighted in recommendations with time-bound targets which the Committee’s future work, he said that poverty was should provide a new beginning for international a major obstacle to the implementation of the efforts to protect the rights of children. Convention and its Optional Protocols. Developing countries faced the predicament of lacking capacity in 16. Mr. Talbot (Guyana), speaking on behalf of the terms of funding, human resources and expertise and States members of the Rio Group expressed concern the Committee had therefore decided to devote its next about the effects of poverty on the livelihoods of day of discussions to certain aspects of article 4 of the children and urged that increased attention be focused Convention.
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