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

CRC/C/MDG/3-4
• Mobilizing stakeholders (parents, health workers, school personnel, community
organizations, fokontany);
• Preparing and delivering information, education and communication (IEC) teaching
aids and management tools.
B. Respect for physical integrity and rights of the child
Legislative and regulatory measures
161. Law No. 2007-023 of 20 August 2007 on the rights and protection of children, lays
down the steps for protecting children in moral danger or victims of abuse as well as the
measures for reporting cases of abuse.
C. Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
1. Legislative and regulatory measures
162. Freedom of association and of peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Nevertheless, ordinance no. 60-133 of 30 October 1960, still in effect, requires legal
majority for the creation of an association. This restriction has not impeded the formation of
youth associations under the aegis of persons who have reached the required majority.
2. Administrative measures
163. Organizations composed of young children and adolescents are connected to
associations or organizations such as the scouts; youth environmental clubs such as Vintsy;
and human-rights clubs and children’s rights-protection clubs, such as those in Antsiranana,
Mahajanga, Fianarantsoa, Fenerive Est, Toamasina and Tuléar.
164. During the annual observance of Children’s Month, peaceful children’s rallies,
parades and meetings are organized in every town to promote children’s rights.
D. Access to information
1. Legislative and regulatory measures
165. Article 11 of the Constitution guarantees that any individual has the right to
information, and that that information be subject to no prior restraint.
166. Decree No. 99-096 of 8 February 1999, concerning the specifications of private
audio-visual businesses, establishes in article 2 that "the holder is responsible for providing
specific information regarding the content of the programmes to be broadcast and for
establishing schedule restrictions for some programming categories, particularly those that
include a substantial amount of violence and sexual content."
2. Administrative measures
167. More than 150 local radio stations have been established since 2006 with a view to
mobilizing mothers and children during campaigns directed at them during Mother and
Child Health Week. Modules on children’s rights, including those on the recording of
births, have been integrated into these periodic series of training sessions.
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