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Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's Information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations. Syria - 12th session - 2011 Scroll to: National Report – Not yet available in English, will be posted in due course! – Not yet available in English, will be posted in due course! Summary of Stakeholders' information 57. The Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) noted that stateless Kurdish children faced problems to be registered at school as their parents often cannot obtain the required documents. Thus, access to education continued to be constrained throughout the child's development, with serious implications for subsequent employment.i KIS indicated that Kurdish students and workers continued to be subjected to arbitrary transfer or expulsion from governmental institutes, departments and institutions.ii 58. KHRP stated that the Syrian authorities put pressure on Kurds to prevent them from celebrating the Nowruz Festival, the Kurdish New Year.iii KIS recommended to Syria to lift the ban on Kurdish culture and heritage and to allow the Kurdish language to be taught in Syrian schools and universities. 59. JS3 noted a significant disparity between different regions regarding completion of primary education. Gender disparities were also evident in education. JS3 recommended increasing and maintaining enrolment rates and ensuring access to education for excluded groups. Accepted and Rejected Recommendations The following recommendations were accepted: A - 100.2. Bring national laws fully into line with its obligations under ICCPR, CEDAW, CAT and CRC (Maldives); A - 100.3. Maintain the positive momentum in improving legislation and institutions, and ensure the execution of its laws in practice, in particular in the areas of education, women rights, childhood, persons with disabilities and victims of trafficking in persons (Venezuela); A - 100.30. Enhance policies and measures to protect social vulnerable groups, especially women, children and elderly persons (Vietnam); A - 100.31. Adopt a comprehensive national human rights plan of action and finalise the national plan for the protection of women and children (Indonesia); A - 100.32. Adopt a comprehensive National Plan of Action geared towards solving the issue of street children (Uruguay); A - 100.38. Step up efforts to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, in particular women and children (Belarus); A - 100.41. Strengthen efforts to prevent violence against and abuse of children (Bangladesh); A - 100.46. Intensify youth programs and create more employment opportunities for young people (Iran); A - 100.47. Intensify youth programs and create more employment opportunities for youths (Lebanon); A - 101.7. Take urgent measures to protect the most vulnerable groups, with particular attention to boys and girls (Chile); A - 102.1. Incorporate into domestic law and enact the provisions of the international instruments, particularly CAT, CEDAW and CRC (Poland); A - 102.5. Immediately and independently investigate the deaths of all the 88 men and children reported by Amnesty International on 31 August to have died whilst in custody and the thousands of peaceful protestors, including 100 children, reported by the United Nations to have been killed since the protests began in mid-March 2011 (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); A - 102.8. Promptly undertake measures to address allegations relating to instances of involuntary disappearances, arbitrary arrests, the routine use of torture, violence against women and girls, lack of judicial independence, impunity granted to the members of intelligence agencies, persecution of human rights defenders, and restriction of freedoms of expression and assembly, and carry out fundamental reforms of its laws, policies and practices with a view to improving the current dire human rights situation and preventing its recurrence (Republic of Korea); The following recommendations were rejected: R - 105.3. Immediately halt the violence against its citizens, which is causing many deaths and injuries, including those of women and children (Japan); R - 105.6. Immediately put an end to repressions of peaceful protests that have led to a high number of deaths and wounded people, including children (Spain); The following recommendations were left pending: P - 103.7. Consider withdrawing the reservations to articles 14, 20 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Uruguay);
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UN Compilation
Stakeholder Compilation
Accepted and Rejected Recommendations