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Concluding Observations, CRC/C/OPSC/USA/CO/2, 1 February 2013: United States of America

Feb 1, 2013

Measures adopted to prevent offences prohibited under the Optional Protocol 23. The Committee regrets that the approach of existing policies, programmes and administrative measures to prevent offences under the Optional Protocol, is law-enforcement oriented to the...

Concluding Observations, CRC/C/GUY/CO/2-4, 1 February 2013: Guyana

Feb 1, 2013

24. The Committee welcomes the State party’s adoption of the Amerindian Act in 2006, the establishment of the Indigenous Peoples Commission to address discrimination and marginalization faced by Amerindian children, and other measures taken to address discrimination...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture, A/HRC/22/53, 1 February 2013

Feb 1, 2013

III. APPLYING THE TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT PROTECTION FRAMEWORK IN HEALTH-CARE SETTINGS C. Interpretative and guiding principles 3. Stigmatized identities 36. In a 2011 report (A/HRC/19/41), the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights examined...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, A/HRC/22/54/Add.1, 21 January 2013: Guatemala

Jan 21, 2013

III. Situation analysis A. Scope of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 2. Child prostitution 18. While the prevalence of child prostitution in Guatemala is not known, a 2010 study by ECPAT identified prostitution of underage boys as the...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, A/HRC/22/54, 24 December 2012

Dec 24, 2012

III. Protection of children from sexual exploitation in travel and tourism C. Responses to combat child sex tourism 3. Protection and support of child victims 64. In some countries, where detention is still being regarded as an appropriate way of protecting child...