COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Twenty-ninth session
Pre-sessional Working Group
15-19 October 2001
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
List of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the
second periodic report of Chile (CRC/C/65/Add.13)
PART I
Under this section the State party is requested to submit in written form additional and updated information, if available (before 3 December 2001):
1. Please provide disaggregated data (by gender, age, indigenous groups, urban or rural areas) covering the period between 1998 and 2000 on the:(a) number and proportion of children under 18 living in the State party;
(b) number and proportion of children belonging to indigenous groups;
(c) rates of infant and child mortality;
(d) proportion of children with low birth weight;
(e) proportion of children affected by acute and chronic malnutrition;
(f) number of children with disabilities either taken care of at home or living in institutions;
(g) number of children in domestic and intercountry adoptions.
2. In light of article 4 of the Convention, please provide additional information and disaggregated data (by age and gender) on the amount and proportion of national budget, devoted to children at central and local level, preferably in the last three years (1999-2001), to:
(a) education (different types of education, i.e. primary and secondary education);
(b) health care (different types of health services, i.e. primary health care, vaccination programmes, adolescent health care and other health care services for children);
(c) children with disabilities;
(d) support programmes for families;
(e) the protection of children who are in need of alternative care including the support of care institutions;
(f) juvenile justice.
Please also indicate the percentages of these allocations derived from international sources and its connection to expenses for children's rights.
3. With reference to child abuse, please provide disaggregated data (by age, gender and types of violations reported), on the:
(a) number of individual complaints received by SENAME per year between 1998 and 2000;
(b) number of reports on child abuse received by the National Police family affairs units per year between 1998 and 2000;
(c) number and percentage of reports which have resulted in either a court decision or other types of follow-up;
(d) budget allocations for programmes and activities for the prevention of and the protection from child abuse.
4. Please provide disaggregated data (including by gender, age, indigenous groups and urban/rural areas) covering the period between 1998 and 2000 on the:
(a) enrolment in percentage of children in pre-primary schools;
(b) enrolment in percentage of children in primary schools;
(c) enrolment in percentage of children in secondary schools;
(d) percentage of enrolled children completing primary and secondary schools;
(e) number and percentage of drop-outs, in particular pregnant girls;
(f) ratio teacher per children;
(g) number of children with disabilities integrated in regular school.
5. Please provide disaggregated statistical data (including by gender, age, indigenous group and region) on adolescent health, including early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse covering the period between 1998 and 2000.
6. Please provide appropriate disaggregated data (including by gender, age, indigenous group and type of crime) covering the period between 1998 and 2000, in particular on the number of:
(a) minors, who have allegedly committed a crime, reported to the police;
(b) minors who have been sentenced and type of punishment or sanctions;
(c) detention facilities for juvenile delinquents and their capacity;
(d) minors detained in these facilities and minors detained in adult facilities;
(e) minors kept in pre-trial detention and the average length of their detention;
(f) reported cases of abuse and maltreatment of children that occurred during their arrest and detention.
7. With reference to special protection measures, please provide statistical data (including by gender, age, urban/rural areas) per year between 1998 and 2000 on:
(a) the number of children involved in sexual exploitation, including prostitution, pornography and trafficking;
(b) the number of children involved in sexual exploitation who received rehabilitation treatments;
(c) the number of children involved in child labour who are under 15;
(d) budgetary allocations for programmes and activities for the prevention of and protection from child sexual exploitation and child labour.
B. General measures of implementation
1. The Committee would appreciate receiving information on those recommendations contained in the Committee's previous concluding observations (CRC/C/15/Add.22, 25 April 1994, paras. 14-18) which are not yet implemented, in particular the ones related to the implementation of the principle of best interest of the child (para. 14), the fight against child abuse and ill-treatment (para. 16) and the establishment of a system of juvenile justice (para. 18).
2. Please provide information on whether steps were undertaken to establish a coordination mechanism at the national, regional and local levels for ensuring the implementation of the Convention, for coordinating policies relevant to children and an independent body for monitoring progress achieved. Further, please provide additional information on the Inter-sectional Working Group For Childhood which was established in 1997.
3. Please provide information on the status of the two draft laws (one on the Support System to Childhood through the Network SENAME, the other one on the Responsibility for Juvenile Infractions to Criminal Law) prepared in 1997 in order to reform the Minors' Law of 1967.
4. Please provide further information on measures taken to increase awareness, including training, on the Convention among government officials, professionals working with and for children and the population in general, including children. In particular, please indicate whether the Convention has been translated in indigenous languages, in particular in the Mapuche one. In addition, please provide additional information on how governmental institutions cooperate with non-governmental organisations, especially with reference to the participation of representatives of civil society in the design and implementation of policies and programmes for children.
5. Please provide further information about the content, the coordination, the monitoring and the implementation (including measures taken and budget allocated for the coming years) of the National Policy and Integrated Plan of Action in favour of Children and Adolescents for 2001-2010.
Please provide copies of the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in all official languages of the State party as well as in other languages or dialects, when available. If possible, please submit these texts in electronic form.
Under this section, the State party is to briefly (3 pages maximum) update the information provided in its report with regard to:
- new bills or enacted legislation;
- new institutions;
- newly implemented policies;
- newly implemented programmes and projects and their scope.
The following is a preliminary list of major issues that the Committee intends to take up during the dialogue with the State party. THEY DO NOT REQUIRE WRITTEN RESPONSES. This list is not exhaustive as other issues might be raised in the course of the dialogue.
The dialogue with the State party might include issues such as:
1. Information about the implementation in practice (e.g., in court decisions, in decisions by administrative bodies, in developing national and local policies on children's issues) of the principles of non-discrimination (art. 2), the best interests of the child (art. 3), the right to life, survival and development (art. 6) and the right of the child to be heard (art. 12).
2. Legislation, policies and programmes implemented and/or foreseen to prevent discrimination against and social exclusion of the most disadvantaged groups of children, in particular children living in rural areas, indigenous children, the rural and urban poor, girls, children of adolescent mothers and to ensure their rights in compliance with the Convention.
3. The situation of abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse within the family, and domestic violence. Additional information on the work carried out by the SENAME. Strategies developed to prevent child abuse and mechanisms established to adequately assist both the victims and perpetrators of abuse. Further, the use of corporal punishment in families, schools, care and other institutions and whether alternative disciplinary measures have been developed to prevent and combat this practice.
4. Availability, quality and efficiency of health-care services for children, in particular in rural areas. Family-planning services provided to adolescents. The situation of children with disabilities.
5. Impact of measures taken to encourage regular attendance at school and to reduce the number of children not attending secondary school, in particular among children belonging to more disadvantaged groups and pregnant girls, and other efforts to make the school a true instrument for social mobility.
6. Measures taken to implement policies and programmes to prevent and combat child labour.
7. The scope of the social phenomenon of sexual exploitation of children as well as measures taken to prevent and combat it.
8. The situation of children belonging to indigenous groups.
9. With respect to the treatment of children in conflict with the law, issues including the treatment of children aged between 16 and 18 who acted with discernment, deprivation of liberty not used as last resort and the conformity of legislation and practice in the area of juvenile justice with international juvenile justice standards.
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