Country Care Reviews

The Country Care Reviews below highlight care-relevant sections of the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Convention on the Rights of the Child Sessions:

68th Session 12 - 30 January 2015

Cambodia
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Gambia
Iraq
Jamaica
Mauritius
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkmenistan
United Republic of Tanzania
Uruguay

67th Session 1 - 19 September 2014

Croatia
Fiji
Hungary
Morocco
Singapore
Venezuela

66th Session 20 May - 13 June 2014

India
Indonesia
Jordan
Kyrgyzstan
Saint Lucia

65th Session 13 - 31 January 2014

Congo
Germany
Holy See
Portugal
Russian Federation
Yemen

64th Session 16 September - 4 October 2013

China
Kuwait
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Monaco
Moldova
Paraguay
Sao Tome & Principe
Tuvalu

63rd Session 27 May - 14 June 2013

Armenia
Guinea-Bissau
Israel
Rwanda
Slovenia
Uzbekistan

62nd Session 14 January-1 February 2013

Guinea
Guyana
Malta
Niue
The Philippines (OPSC)
USA (OPSC)
Slovakia (OPSC)
Burkina Faso (OPSC)

61st Session 17 September- 5 October 2012

Canada
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Namibia
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Liberia

60th Session 29 May-15 June 2012

Algeria
Turkey
Australia
Cyprus
Greece
Vietnam

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted on 13 December 2006 and it came into force on 3 May 2008. It has been ratified by 132 countries to date. A number of provisions of the Convention are especially relevant to children's care. In particular, Article 23 on 'Respect for home and the family', stipulates that:

States who are party to the Convention must ensure that children with disabilities have equal rights with respect to family life and that early and comprehensive information, services and support to children with disabilities and their families should be established to prevent concealment, abandonment, neglect and segregation of children with disabilities.
In no case should a child be separated from parents on the basis of a disability of either the child or one or both of the parents.
Where the immediate family is unable to care for a child with disabilities, States Parties must undertake every effort to provide alternative care within the wider family, and failing that, within the community in a family setting .
States Parties must also render appropriate assistance to persons with disabilities in the performance of their child-rearing responsibilities.