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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: -------------------------------------- Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Mr Anand Grover. Visit undertaken from 7-14 November 2010 No report, but press release issued on 15 November 2010. Issues raised: Women’s and children’s health: The Special Rapporteur welcomed improvements in the maternal and child mortality rates, which “place Syria close to the top of the developing world in terms of health-related achievements.” He observed that Syria’s high fertility rate, and its persistent “urban/rural divide” in delivery of health care services, are ongoing challenges in realizing sexual and reproductive rights. He also stressed the importance of increasing awareness of gender-based violence, a problem for which no data was available during his mission. He called upon the Government to give due attention to the “protection of human rights of women in this process, and … to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.” See full press release - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10533&L...
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