The Committee welcomes Australia’s fourth periodic report, submitted in accordance with the reporting guidelines of the Committee, as well as the written replies to its list of issues. The Committee appreciates the constructive dialogue with the State party’s multisectorial delegation. Download below. For
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Published by the Australian Child Rights Taskforce in May 2012. 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
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Every five years, a special group of experts on children’s rights called the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examines how children are going in Australia. They pay attention to the problems children face, and make recommendations to
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The Optional Protocol was developed to protect children from the worst forms of commercial sexual exploitation. It further elaborates some of the important protections for children contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention). UNICEF estimates
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Published in October 2008. The Australian Government is pleased to present to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Australia’s Initial Report under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of
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The Australian Government is pleased to present to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Australia’s Fourth Report under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. When read together with Australia’s Common Core Document, which was submitted to
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