Summary: Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) is launching the published Concluding Observations and Recommendations (CO&R) on Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 15:00 to 17:00 at Islamabad Hotel, G-6 Markaz, Islamabad.
Pakistan will mark the 20th anniversary of its ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) in November this year. The Government of Pakistan has submitted four Periodic Reports to the Committee. The exercise of submitting reports provides an opportunity to member states to conduct a comprehensive review of various measures undertaken to harmonize law and policy with the Convention and public scrutiny of Government’s policies, but in Pakistan no concrete steps were taken by the governments to implement CO&R on Pakistan’s Periodic Reports neither the CO&R were widely distributed among the stakeholders. Article 44 of the UN CRC calls upon State Parties to submit reports periodically on the progress achieved in realisation of the provisions of the Convention to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Geneva. We, at SPARC, feel that it is important to have a proper implementation and follow up plan. Therefore, as a first step, SPARC has published the CO&R and disseminated among the stakeholders for making it easy for policy makers, legislators, duty bearers and civil society in Pakistan to play their respective roles in the implementation of these CO&R and to bring positive and lasting changes in lives of Pakistani children by making implementation of the CRC a reality. Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) is launching the published Concluding Observations and Recommendations (CO&R) on Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 15:00 to 17:00 at Islamabad Hotel, G-6 Markaz, Islamabad.
Pakistan: Concluding Observations and Recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Pakistan’s Periodic Report
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