Article 3: Best interests of the child

HOLY SEE: Pope adds former child victim to new commission on sex abuse cases

26/Mar/2014 News

A new commission that will advise Pope Francis on sex abuse policy within the church includes an Irish psychiatrist who was assaulted by a chaplain when she was 13 years old. But it remains unclear if the commission will deal with the critical issue of disciplining bishops who cover up for abusers.

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Observations finales sur le rapport périodique du Saint-Siège sur la Convention

3/Mar/2014 UN and Regional Documentation

CRC/C/VAT/CO/2 Observations finales sur le rapport périodique du Saint-Siège sur la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant.

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Concluding Observations for Yemen's Initial Report on OPAC

5/Feb/2014 UN and Regional Documentation

CRC/C/OPAC/YEM/CO/1

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Concluding Observations for Yemen's fourth periodic report

5/Feb/2014 UN and Regional Documentation

Below is a short summary of some of the key issues from the Committee on the Rights of the Child's 65th session concluding...