child rights committee | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com A New Voice for Business in Malta Thu, 16 May 2019 14:21:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bw-favicon.svg child rights committee | The Malta Business Weekly https://maltabusinessweekly.com 32 32 159130352 UN Child Rights Committee to review Malta among other countries https://maltabusinessweekly.com/un-child-rights-committee-to-review-malta-among-other-countries/2912/ Wed, 15 May 2019 09:22:44 +0000 https://maltabusinessweekly.com/?p=2912 The United Nation’s Child Rights Committee is meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from 13 to 31 May to review Botswana, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Malta, Singapore, and Tonga. The Committee will also review Sri Lanka under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children.

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]]> The United Nation’s Child Rights Committee is meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from 13 to 31 May to review Botswana, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Malta, Singapore, and Tonga. The Committee will also review Sri Lanka under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, according to a press statement.

The aforementioned states are parties to the Child Rights Convention and its Optional Protocols, and are required to undergo regular reviews on how they are implementing the committee’s previous recommendations and the convention or its optional protocols, the press statement says.

The public sessions will take place in the ground floor conference room of Palais Wilson in Geneva.

The committee is scheduled to publish its findings on the respective states on 6 June 2019, and to hold a press conference on the same day.

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