Universal Periodic Review: The Status of Children's Rights - CRIN

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) Analysis of Children's Rights in the Recommendations
Findings and Analysis
1) States receive on average just over 13 recommendations on children's rights
As tables 3 and 4 above indicate, the average number of recommendations per country review for all human rights
issues is around 69 and for specific children's rights issues, just over 13.
2) States reject more children's rights recommendations comparatively than broader recommendations
Although similarities exist in the share of accepted recommendations between specific children's rights
recommendations and all human rights recommendations, a disparity exists in the percentages of recommendations
rejected in the children's rights table and separately in the overall human rights table (6.8 per cent of children's rights
recommendations are rejected out of an overall total of 17.80 per cent of all rights rejected recommendations), so just
about a third of those are children's rights. Hence, if children's rights recommendations make up approximately 20% of
the total recommendations made in the UPR, but a third are rejected, then comparatively speaking, they are rejected
much more than general human rights.
Which issues are rejected? Later in the analysis we will look at which particular issues are raised
in the recommendations by UN Member States and which of these are rejected most and least.
Now let's take a look at how the number of recommendations has increased from Session 1 - 7
Table 5 – Trends in Recommendations over the 7 sessions
Session Total No. of
Recommendations
(Children's Rights Only)
Total
Accepted
Total Rejected Total Pending
1 55 65% 5% 27%
2 124 74% 2% 23%
3 164 70% 10% 20%
4 224 82% 4% 14%
5 243 85% 7% 8%
6 385 73% 6% 21%
7 304 82% 10% 8%
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