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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. Scroll to: _____________________________________________ (R) SR on human rights defenders (A) SR on independence of judges and lawyers SR on freedom of religion or belief (23-30 March 2011 - postponed) _____________________________________________ (A/HRC/7/3/Add.3) Country visit: 22 to 29 November 2006 The report contains a study of the legal and factual aspects of the situation of torture and ill-treatment, and conditions of detention in the country. The Special Rapporteur concludes that the situation of torture and ill-treatment in prisons and military detention facilities has improved in recent years . However, the situation of detainees in police custody is of serious concern. Torture is still widely practised during the first days of police custody As regards to child rights the report mentions that Paraguay has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. In the section on individual cases, there is mention of the disappearance of two children " Maria Cresencia Brítez, her daughter Maria Louisa Caceres Brítez, aged 11, her son Samuel David Caceres Brítez, aged nine, and her triplets Eliseo, Elizabeth and Eliana Caceres Britez, aged six. _____________________________________________ UN Special Rapporteur on the Adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights, Mrs Fatma-Zohra Ksentini, Report on the mission to Latin America Country visit: 14-19 June 1998 The report includes talks and consultations carried out in Paraguay, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico. In Paraguay the Special Rapporteur met various Paraguayan authorities in order to determine the nature and cause of the issue which had been brought to her attention, record any cases in which the life or health of persons had been placed in jeopardy, discuss possibilities of strengthening Paraguay's capacity to combat the illicit dumping of toxic or dangerous products or wastes and, lastly, consider means of disposing of the products stored in the river port of the capital, Asunción. The report contains no mention of children's rights in relation to Paraguay.
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UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Mr.Manfred Nowak
Report published: 1 October 2007
(E/CN.4/1999/46/Add.1)
Report published: 11 January 1999