CRC/C/MDG/3-4 - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

CRC/C/MDG/3-4
43. Since its creation, CRRC has made contributions that have led to the reform of:
• Children’s rights and protection, by the passage of Law No. 2007-023 of 20 August
2007 on the rights and protection of children, which replaced ordinance no. 62-038
of 19 September 1962;
• Marriage and matrimonial property regimes;
• Adoption and the decree concerning foster families;
• Protection against human trafficking, sexual exploitation and sexual tourism;
• Combating child labour.
44. The reform process pertaining to children in trouble with the law is on-going.
Additional legislative measures may be found in annex II.
B. Coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the Convention
45. In keeping with the fundamental objectives defined by the poverty reduction strategy
papers included in the PRSP and taken up by the MAP, implementation of the Convention
has made some headway despite the difficulties of putting in place a global action plan and
a mechanism to coordinate policy concerning children.
46. Nonetheless, thematic and/or sectoral policy coordination mechanisms are in place,
such as the implementation of:
• The National Commission to Combat Child Labour (NCCCL), an inter-sectoral
organ charged with overseeing the implementation of the National Plan of Action to
Combat Child Labour. The civil service and the Ministry of Education have
benefitted from the financial support of the European Union, in the amount of one
million euro, to conduct joint anti-child labour programmes that make education the
priority;
• An inter-sectoral committee created in 2004 to formulate the National Strategy for
Social Welfare;
• A joint Government/UNICEF programme called “Governance for the rights of the
child” that, since 2004, has coordinated, monitored and evaluated the activities
undertaken in the area of child protection;
• A national plan of action to combat violence against children, initiated by the
Ministry of Justice and linking the other public and private bodies concerned with
the rights of the child.
47. Moreover, passage of the new Law No. 2008-012, on the establishment of the
National Council of Human Rights in accordance with the Paris Principles, is an appeals
mechanism authorized to receive and review complaints of human rights violations,
including those involving the rights of the child.
48. As regards decentralization, coordination is ensured by child rights protection
networks.
interior; Ministry for youth and sports; National committee to combat AIDS (CNLS); Faculty of law;
Bar association; civil society; UNICEF; ILO; International Programme on the Elimination of Child
Labour (IPEC); two representatives for the NGOs.
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