Recommendations
The Committee on the Rights of the Child has recommended various ways for States to strengthen their legal framework to eliminate discrimination. These include:
- To adopt new laws, amend or rescind existing legislation to ensure that all children enjoy all rights set out in the CRC without discrimination.
- To expand legally unacceptable grounds of discrimination in their national laws to ensure the protection of all children from discrimination.
- To ensure domestic legislation and customary law practices are also in line with article 2, where discrimination is already prohibited in the constitution.
- To undertake a legislative review to 'discrimination proof' legislation.
Further information:
- Find out what measures the Committee has recommended your State to adopt to eliminate discrimination by searching the Concluding Observations in the CRIN library.
- Read a comparative analysis of the Concluding Observations by the UN CRC on the most recent reports of the 27 EU Member States (EURONET, July 2009, pp. 7-9)