Lists of Issues - CRC - Gambia - CRC/C/Q/GAM/1 (2001)

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CRC/C/Q/GAM/1
15 June 2001

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List of issues : Gambia. 15/06/2001.

CRC/C/Q/GAM/1. (List of Issues)

COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
28 th Session
Pre-sessional Working Group
11-15 June 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
initial report of the GAMBIA (CRC/C/3/Add.61)

PART I

Under this section the State party is requested to submit in writing additional and updated information, if possible, before 1 August 2001:

A. Data and statistics, if available

1. Please provide updated demographic data of the under-18 population, disaggregated by sex, urban and rural areas.

2. Please provide specific disaggregated data on national budgetary allocation and spending for social needs for the period between 1999 and 2001. In particular, how much was spent on:

a) education (including allocations for pre-school, primary and secondary education, salaries, preservation of school buildings, etc.);
b) health (including allocations for HIV/AIDS programmes, primary health care, vaccinations, nutrition programmes, malaria programmes, adolescent health care and other health care services for children);
c) child protection (for example institutional or foster care);
d) programmes for children with disabilities; and
e) juvenile crime prevention and rehabilitation programmes.

3. Please provide disaggregated statistical data on birth registration covering the period 1999-2001

4. Please provide disaggregated data (by sex, age, urban or rural areas), covering the period 1998-2000 on the number of children deprived of their family environment:

a) AIDS orphans;
b) children separated from their parents;
b) children in domestic and intercountry adoption programmes;
c) children living in institutions;