Summary:

A thematic guide for non-governmental organisations reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

http://www.crin.org/docs/NGO_Guidelines_reporting_VAC_to_CRC_2008.pdf

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The guidelines presented below are designed to help non-governmental organisations to include comprehensive information on the incidence of violence in their reports to the Committee. NGOs have a unique role to play and they alone can give meaning to the data and statistics presented to the Committee. It is by making this information available that corrective measures can be identified that will move us towards our goal of ending violence.

The NGO reports on violence against children under the CRC

Most NGOs working on issues related to child rights are familiar with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and which came into force on 2 September 1990.

Since that time the NGO community has been actively participating in the monitoring of the Convention by providing reports and oral presentations to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which meets in Geneva three times a year. These reports review, analyze and complement official State party reports, as well as present additional information to the Committee on how the Convention is being implemented in a given national setting.

A number of guidelines and implementation handbooks have been produced to provide detailed information on the Convention, its optional protocols, the role of the Committee, the obligations of States party to the Convention and the part that can be played by the NGO community.

The review of NGO reports to the Committee concluded that the availability of NGO information on violence against children is uneven both geographically and thematically, and that there is a compelling need to improve the reporting function.

Further information

• UN Study on Violence Against Children 
• Civil Society website on violence against children
• Summary of the Violence Study
• General Guide for reporting to the CRC
• Website of the NGO Group for the CRC
• Information about the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Organisation Contact Details:

NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
1 rue Varembé
1202 Geneva
Tel: + 41 22 740 47 30
Email: secretariat@childrightsnet.org
Website: www.childrightsnet.org

Last updated 26/06/2008 10:25:35