A/HRC/34/23
3.
(a)
Children
Good practices
76.
A representative of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of
the Child indicated that the Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations on situations in
specific countries shared information with the Committee. There were similar channels of
communication with the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
77.
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the
Committee on the Rights of the Child had conducted a joint investigative mission in the
Central African Republic.
(b)
Forms of cooperation
78.
The following proposals for cooperation between regional mechanisms and a range
of stakeholders were made with the aim of enhancing the rights of the child:
(a)
Any body receiving an individual communication should check that it had
not been submitted to another body and was not being considered by another body at the
same time, thereby ensuring consistent jurisprudence;
(b)
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Chid
could work more closely with United Nations mechanisms on sensitive issues that
Governments chose to ignore, including corporal punishment and abortion;
(c)
Greater advocacy efforts to ensure the necessary mainstreaming of child
protection in humanitarian response plans should be made. Civil society should be equipped
for humanitarian intervention, including in respect of preparing relevant documentation and
working with children, women and persons with disabilities. More work should be done to
prevent and manage conflict;
(d)
African regional human rights mechanisms could work together with the
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child to encourage
ratification of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
4.
(a)
Persons with disabilities
Good practices
79.
A representative of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
indicated that it had established a task force on mainstreaming the rights of persons with
disabilities to develop a subregional action plan by 2017.
80.
A representative of the International Disability Alliance indicated that the Alliance
advocated mainstreaming the rights of persons with disabilities throughout the United
Nations and in other processes. The Alliance also helped civil society, including
organizations of and for persons with disabilities, participate in the activities of the
international human rights system. It worked with other civil society organizations to
integrate disability issues into the treaty body strengthening process.
81.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had established a new
programme on persons with disabilities and their participation in public life.
(b)
Challenges and lessons learned
82.
Since there are conflicting standards on the rights of persons with disabilities,
preventing the fragmentation of standards required coherence at the global and regional
levels.
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