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

Table of Contents
Executive Summary...........................................................................................................................1
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3
The report's two main objectives....................................................................................................3
Why CRIN is writing this report....................................................................................................3
Why this report is important...........................................................................................................4
2 About the Universal Periodic Review............................................................................................5
Notable characteristics of the UPR.................................................................................................5
State Reviews completed to date....................................................................................................5
A guide to the UPR process............................................................................................................6
3 CRIN's Children's Rights References Reports.............................................................................9
Structure of reports.........................................................................................................................9
Report Sources..............................................................................................................................10
4 Methodology for Selecting Criteria for Analysis........................................................................11
What constitutes a reference to children's rights in the UPR reports............................................11
Monitoring selected children's rights for the analysis..................................................................12
Criteria selected for recommendations ........................................................................................13
5 Overall Analysis of Children's Rights in the UPR......................................................................15
To what extent are children's rights addressed in the UPR...........................................................15
Which children's rights issues feature most prominently and which are most neglected.............16
6 Analysis of Children's Rights in the Recommendations............................................................19
Recommendations received by States under Review...................................................................19
Recommendations issued by UN Member States.........................................................................26
7 NGO Survey Findings...................................................................................................................30
Background to research................................................................................................................30
A stage by stage guide to NGO participation ..............................................................................31
Summary of NGO responses........................................................................................................33
8 Conclusion .....................................................................................................................................54
Drawing conclusions on the report's two main objectives...........................................................54
Areas for further research and analysis........................................................................................55
The UPR in the Human Rights Council Review 2011.................................................................56
9 Appendices.....................................................................................................................................57
Appendix 1: Children's rights recommendations received by States and their responses...........58
Appendix 2: All recommendations received by States and their responses................................61
Appendix 3: Rejected children's rights recommendations..........................................................64
Appendix 4: Number of children's rights recommendations made by UN Member States........71
Appendix 5: Number of times States raise particular issues in the recommendations................75