CRC/GC/2003/5
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4
Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 3 (thirteenth session, 1981), Article 2:
Implementation at the national level; Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
general comment No. 3 (fifth session, 1990), The nature of States parties’ obligations (article 2,
paragraph 1, of the Covenant); also general comment No. 9 (nineteenth session, 1998), The
domestic application of the Covenant, elaborating further on certain elements in general
comment No. 3. A compendium of the treaty bodies’ general comments and recommendations
is published regularly by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6).
5
General comment No. 3, HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6, para. 11, p. 16.
6
Human Rights Committee, general comment No. 18 (1989), HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6, pp. 147 et seq.
7
General Guidelines Regarding the Form and Contents of Periodic Reports to be Submitted
under Article 44, Paragraph 1 (b) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, CRC/C/58,
20 November 1996, para. 11.
8
World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14-25 June 1993, “Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action”, A/CONF.157/23.
9
World Summit for Children, “World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development
of Children and Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival,
Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s”, CF/WSC/1990/WS-001, United Nations,
New York, 30 September 1990.
10
World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14-25 June 1993, “Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action”, A/CONF.157/23.
11
A World Fit for Children, outcome document of the United Nations General Assembly special
session on children, 2002, para. 59.
12
Ibid., para. 61 (a).
13
Committee on the Rights of the Child, Report on its thirty-first session,
September-October 2002, Day of General Discussion on “The private sector as service
provider and its role in implementing child rights”, paras. 630-653.
14
General Guidelines Regarding the Form and Contents of Periodic Reports to be Submitted
under Article 44, Paragraph 1(b), of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, CRC/C/58,
20 November 1996, para. 20.
15
16
Ibid., para. 3.
The following articles of the Convention relate to international cooperation explicitly:
articles 7 (2); 11 (2); 17 (b); 21 (e); 22 (2); 23 (4); 24 (4); 27 (4); 28 (3); 34 and 35.