{"id":44159,"date":"2020-02-07T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/un-child-rights-committee-to-review-austria-belarus-costa-rica-hungary-rwanda-and-state-of-palestine\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:15:18","slug":"un-child-rights-committee-to-review-austria-belarus-costa-rica-hungary-rwanda-and-state-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/un-child-rights-committee-to-review-austria-belarus-costa-rica-hungary-rwanda-and-state-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Child Rights Committee to review Austria, Belarus, Costa Rica, Hungary, Rwanda and State of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UN Child Rights Committee will meet in Geneva from 20 January to 7 February to review Austria, Belarus, Costa Rica, Hungary, Rwanda, and State of Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The above are among the 196 States parties<\/a> to the Child Rights Convention<\/a> and its Optional Protocols. They required to undergo regular reviews by the Committee of 18 independent international experts<\/a> on how they are implementing the Convention, its Optional Protocols, as well as the Committee\u2019s previous recommendations.<\/p>\n

The public sessions will be held in the Ground Floor Conference Room<\/strong> of Palais Wilson <\/strong>in Geneva.<\/strong> A full schedule of meetings is available online here<\/a>. The sessions will be webcast live at\u00a0http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/live<\/a>, and the recommended hashtag for the meeting is #CRC83.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Committee will hold dialogues with delegations from the respective governments and be briefed by NGOs, national human rights institutions and independent monitoring frameworks.<\/p>\n

More information about the session, including reports submitted by the States, is available on the session webpage<\/a>. Information is also available regarding\u00a0media accreditation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Committee is scheduled to publish its findings on the respective States, known as concluding observations, here<\/a>, on 13 February<\/strong>. The Committee will hold a press conference to present the findings on the same day at 13:00 hs <\/strong>in Press Room 1<\/strong>, Palais des Nations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).<\/i>
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