Joint Child Rights NGO Submission to the Human Rights Committee on the ICCPR

The National Children’s and Youth Law Centre, KWM Human Rights Law Group, UNICEF and UNSW jointly prepared the Child Rights NGO submission to the UN Human Rights Committee for the List of Issues Prior to Reporting on Australia’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

The submission highlights areas where Australia is failing to comply with its international obligations under the ICCPR as it relates to children and young people, and provides some questions for the Committee to consider asking the Australian Government before a final UN report is drafted. The submission covered four broad topics founded in articles of the ICCPR, including the Right to Self Determination, the Protection of Children, Non-Discrimination and the Entrenchment of Basic Human Rights. 

You can download the submission here.

Addendum to Listen to Children Report

The addendum to the Listen to Children Report which provides an update for the period May 2011 to May 2012 has been submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and can now be downloaded here.

Thank you to the Child Rights Taskforce for your contributions to this report.

 

NGO Fact Sheets and Materials now available!

To assist the UN Committee, advocates and NGOs to participate Australia's review of the state of children's rights and wellbeing in Australia, the Child Rights Taskforce has prepared a range of fact sheets to address varies issues as outlined in the Listen to Children Report.  Each fact sheet contains a brief background to the issue and recommendations for Australia:

• General Measures
• Civil Rights and Freedoms
  
• Equality and Non-Discrimination
• Children with a disability
• Health and Mental Health
• Family Environment and Care
• Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
  
• Standard of Living and Homelessness
• Immigration
• Youth Justice
• Youth Participation
• Key Issues Affecting Aboriginal Children

CROC and the Optional Protocols

Text of the Convention (PDF)

Text of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

Text of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

NGO Reports

May 2005 Non-Government Report on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Australia (PDF)

Government Reports

Australian Government Fourth Report under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (PDF)

Australian Government Initial Report under the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (PDF)

Australian Government Initial Report under the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (PDF)

Concluding Observations

2005 Concluding Observations of Committee on Rights of the Child - Australia

Reporting Guides

A Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (PDF)

Guide for NGOs reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (PDF)

UNICEF Guide to the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (PDF)

More information about CROC and the UN Committee

Australian Human Rights Commission  

National Children’s and Youth Law Centre

NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child