BAHAMAS

Special Decisions or Action Taken Re: Reporting

CRC CRC/C/114 (2002)

VII. WORKING METHODS

561. At its 776th meeting, held on 31 January 2002, the Committee decided to send a letter to all States parties whose initial reports were due in 1992 and 1993, requesting them to submit that report within one year. The Committee further decided to inform those States parties in the same letter that should they not report within one year, the Committee would consider the situation of child rights in the State in the absence of the initial report, as foreseen in the Committee’s “Overview of the reporting procedures” (CRC/C/33, paras. 29-32) and in light of rule 67 of the Committee’s provisional rules of procedure (CRC/C/4).

CRC A/59/41 (2004)

IV. Overview of other activities of the Committee

A. Methods of Work

21.       At its twenty-ninth session (see CRC/C/114, para. 561), the Committee decided to send a letter to all States parties whose initial reports were due in 1992 and 1993, requesting them to submit that report within one year. Should they not report within one year, the Committee would consider the situation of child rights in the State in the absence of the initial report, as foreseen in the Committee’s “Overview of the reporting procedures” (CRC/C/33, paras. 29-32) and in light of rule 67 of the Committee’s provisional rules of procedure (CRC/C/4). In this regard, as at 1 November 2003, the Committee had received the initial reports of Dominica, Guyana, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Bahamas...