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Summary: Children's rights extracts from the report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez.
The Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, recently submitted his annual report to the Human Rights Council ahead of the upcoming 19th session in Geneva.
The thematic focus of the report (attached above), commissions of inquiry, was selected by the Special Rapporteur to help deepen the international community's understanding on when such commissions should be created by States in response to patterns or practices of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
Children's rights neglected
Children's rights are only mentioned once specifically throughout the whole report by the UN Expert:
17. On 22 September 2011, the Special Rapporteur, together with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers condemned the public execution by hanging of a 17-year-old juvenile and the ongoing practice by the Iranian authorities of executing people charged with drug-related offences. The experts called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty, particularly in drug-related and juvenile cases.
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