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METTRE FIN AUX EXECUTIONS DE MINEURS
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TO PUT AN END TO THE EXECUTIONS MINORS
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CALL TO PUT AN END TO THE EXECUTIONS MINORS: Setting in? uvre of L? Prohibition of the Death penalty for Minors in Right and in practice [news]

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CALL TO PUT AN END TO the EXECUTIONS MINORS: Setting in? uvre of L? Prohibition of the Death penalty for Minors in Right and in practice [news]

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All the States of the world ratified or adheres to the treaties obliging them to guarantee that the minor delinquents? people having less than 18 years at the time of the crime? are never condemned to death. The great majority of the States respect this obligation: Only Five States (1) are known to have carried out minor delinquents since 2005.

Over were these 3 last years, at least 32 people carried out in these 5 States for committed crimes lorsqu? they were children and more than 100 other minor delinquents are currently in the corridor of death. It is extremely probable that the number real D? executions and of death sentences is higher, since little country makes public information on the death sentences pronounced against the minor delinquents.

L? prohibition of the death penalty for the minors is absolute in the right of the treaties and the common law. However, certain States continue D? to carry out guilty delinquent minors of certain crimes and D? to authorize the judges to treat the children like adults S? they show signs of puberty. Even in the States whose law clearly prohibits the recourse to the capital punishment for people N? not having reached L? 18 years age at the time of the crime, the judges tend to treat the children like adults in the capital businesses. D? a share, because the weak rate D? does birth registration make difficult to prove L? age of L? child at the time of the crime. D? another share, because L? child N? did not have access to a qualified legal assistance at the crucial times of L? arrest, of L? inquire and lawsuit.

In so much qu? do organizations not-governmental local, regional, national and international, we invite all the Member States of the United Nations to make apply L completely? prohibition of the capital punishment for minors D? age, like L? requires the common law, the Convention on the Rights of L? Child and the International Pact relating to the Civil laws and Political and like L? the Secretary-General of the United Nations in her recent study on violence against the children underlined.

We encourage also the Member States of the United Nations with L? General meeting of:

1. To require States which N? yet fully abolished the death penalty for minors with:

To adopt a legislation immediately prohibiting the death penalty for people N? being 18 years old at the time of the crimes.
To immediately apply a moratorium to all executions of people condemned for crimes committed before L? 18 years age, while waiting for L? adoption D? a legislation on the death penalty for minors.
To revise all the death sentences pronounced against people N? not having 18 years at the time it crime and to immediately commute these judgments to prison sentences or other sorrows in accordance with the standards of international justice for minors.


2. To launch a call to the States which prohibited the death penalty for minors with:

To take care that the children in conflict with the law do have a fast access to a legal assistance, of which an assistance to prove their age at the time of L? infringement, and to require legal police force, parquet floor and authorities D? to record L? age of the children who are introduced in front of them.
To promote a universal recording of the Veiller
births so that the legal authorities do include/understand and make respect L? prohibition of the death penalty for minors, while delivering with the judges and the prosecutors a formation on his application and by ordering a revision of all the death penalties whenever it N? is not proven that the person reached L? 18 years age at the time of the crime.


3. To ask the Secretary General of the United Nations to subject, at the time of the 64ème session of L? General meeting, a report/ratio on the respect of L? absolute prohibition of the death penalty for minors informing on:

the number of minor delinquents condemned to died to L? current hour, as well as the number of minors carried out these 5 last years;
the rates D? birth registration;
the setting in? uvre D? a suitable national legislation, including/understanding mechanisms guaranteeing to the minor delinquents a legal assistance to all the stages of L? inquire and lawsuit;
any other obstacle with L? integral application of L? prohibition of the death penalty for minors.

Additional information

Information and topicality concerning the Study on Violence against the children
the Convention on the rights of the child - article 37

Footnote:
(1) Between on January 1, 2005 and on September 2, 2008, the following States are known to have carried out 32 minor delinquents: Iran (26), Saudi Arabia (2), Sudan (2), Pakistan (2), Yemen (1).




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Menu: Qu? is what the Committee of the rights of L? child? | What does it make? | How does it function? | How is it structured?








Qu? is what the Committee of the rights of L? child?

The Committee of the rights of L? is child (CRC) a made up body D? independent experts who supervises the setting in? uvre of the Convention on the rights of L? child. Does Convention envisage L? establishment D? such a Committee in articles 43, 44 and 45.

Does the Committee supervise also the setting in? uvre of the two optional protocols to Convention that relating to the participation of the children in the wars and that concerning the sale D? children, prostitution of the children and pornography putting in scene children.

Also known under the name “D? body of control” or “mechanism” (of what S? does it act?), there are equivalents for the other treaties. For example, the Committee for L? elimination of discriminations with L? was regard of the woman creates to supervise Convention on L? elimination of all shapes of discriminations to L? regard of women (CEDAW).


What does it make?

All the States left which ratified the Convention on the rights of L? do child have to submit regular reports/ratios to the Committee on the way in which the rights are put in? uvre. The States must submit a first report/ratio two years after having adhered to Convention and thereafter every five years. Does the Committee examine each report/ratio and addresses its remarks and recommendations to L? State left through “final observations”. To click here to reach examples.

The Committee examines also the reports/ratios of the States which adhered to the two optional protocols.

At did its first session in October 1991, the Committee adopt hot lines for the States left lorsqu? they write the initial reports/ratios.

Can't the Committee examine individual complaints, even if the questions relating to the rights of L? can child be raised auprès D? other Committee. To see on the countryside aiming at establishing a mechanism of individual complaint through an Optional Protocol.



How does it function?

Does the Committee meet in Geneva and holds three sessions normally per annum, D? one three weeks duration in January, May-June and September. With does each session, the Committee examine the reports/ratios D? approximately ten States left, it discusses the problems with a delegation of the government and writes final observations.

The national ONG and Police chiefs for the children can provide “alternative reports/ratios” to those of the States left to give a different prospect to the Committee. Are all the alternative reports/ratios available through coordination D? ONG for the CRC and put on line on the site of HAIR for each session. It is also possible to seek the reports/ratios of ONG on the site of HAIR per country, session and author.

Does days of general discussion
Once per annum, at its session of September, the Committee hold one day of general Discussions on an article of the Convention on the rights of L? child in order to put forth more detailed recommendations with the governments. Each year, of the children, ONG and the experts are invited to present documents to feed the day of debate of the Committee with recipients (agencies of NAKED, members of the Committee, ONG, researchers, lawyers, children, etc)

All the presented documents are put on line on the site of HAIR. Internet site of the OHCHR provides further information over the days of general discussions.

Report/ratio with L? Does general meeting of the United Nations
Once per annum, the Committee provide a report/ratio to the Third Committee of L? General meeting of the United Nations, which also attends a declaration of the President of the CRC. L? Does general meeting adopt then a resolution on the rights of L? child. The reports/ratios and the resolutions are put on line on the site of HAIR.

Does regional workshops on the follow-up of the final observations
the OHCHR, in co-operation with of ONG and the governments hosts, organize regional and sous-régionaux workshops occasionally to make the follow-up of the setting in? uvre of the Convention and other final observations of the bodies to the treaties. Workshops of the CRC took place in Damas (Syria), Bangkok (Thailand), Doha (Qatar), Buenos Aires (Argentinian), Suva (Fiji), and San Jose (Costa Rica) and of the recommendations were made with the areas concerned.

The sites of HAIR and the OHCHR provide information on this question.

Does general comments
the Committee occasionally publish its interpretation of the articles of Convention in the form of general comments, sometimes following a debate D? one day of general discussion.

The sites of HAIR and the OHCHR provide information on this question.

More on the working methods of the Committee.



How is it structured?


The independent experts have very different profiles. To reach the list of the current members, to see: http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/members.htm

a working group of the Committee meets before each one of its sessions for a preliminary examination of the received reports/ratios of the States Parties and to prepare the discussions of the Committee with the representatives of the examined States.

In addition to does the reports/ratios of the States, the working group study the information provided by the bodies of the other treaties relating to the rights of L? man. Does the Committee receive also information on the mechanisms installed by the Committee of the rights of L? man to inquire into infringements of the rights of L? man in specific countries or on sets of themes, for example special rapporteurs on torture, the summary or arbitrary executions and violence against the women. A key partner in this context is the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, the prostitution of children and the pornography implying of the children.

Before the session of the Committee where the report/ratio of L? Is State left examined, a working group of the Committee organizes a meeting in door - field with agencies and bodies of the United Nations, ONG, and D? other competent authorities like the Institutions of rights of L? man main roads and the organizations of youth which provided additional information to the Committee.

Is the result of this discussion one? list questions?. This list aims at giving to the government a preliminary indication questions which the Committee regards as priorities for the discussion.

That gives also the possibility to the Committee of requiring before the session of additional information or updates in form written of the government. This approach makes it possible the governments to better prepare with the discussion with the Committee, which generally takes place between three and four months after the behaviour of the working group.


To obtain regular information on the CRC and the activities of the Committee, to visit the page of information on the CRC of HAIR.