MONTENEGRO: Children's Rights in the UN Special Procedures' Reports

Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which are available as separate reports.

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UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

Frank La Rue

(A/HRC/26/30/Add.1)

Country visit: 11 - 17 June 2013

Report Published:  29 April 2014

Children identity in the media: The Special Rapporteur was very concerned by the level of polarization that exists in the Montenegrin media. Media groups appear to be divided between those taking a critical position against the ruling authorities […] and those taking a more supportive view (para. 50).  The great polarization and politicization of the media directly affected efforts towards self-regulation (para. 52).  The lack of success in self-regulatory efforts is aggravating concerns relating to the bad quality of some of the work done by the media. There have been complaints made, for example, with regard to the disclosure of the identity of children […].It has also been alleged that some media have refused at times to acknowledge and publicly correct serious mistakes even after complaints had been made. (para. 54).

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Accepted visits

  • Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression (scheduled for June 2013)
  • WG on disappearances

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Requested visits

No others have been made.

 

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