COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
32nd Session
Pre-sessional Working Group
7-11 October 2002
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 Haiti
(CRC/C/51/Add.7)
Part I
Under this section the State party is requested to submit in
written form additional and updated information, if
possible, before 29th November 2002:
A. Data and statistics, if available
1. Please provide disaggregated statistical data (by gender, groups
and region) covering the period 1999-2001 on:
(a) the number and proportion of children under 18 living in the
State party;
(b) the rates of infant and child mortality;
(c) the proportion of children with low birth weight;
(d) the proportion of children affected by malnutrition;
(e) the number of children in domestic and intercountry
adoptions.2. In light of article 4 of the Convention, please
provide additional data disaggregated by region for 1999-2002, on
budget allocations and trends (in percentages of the national and
regional budgets) allocated to the implementation of the
Convention, evaluating also the priorities for budgetary
expenditures given to the following:
(a) education (different types of education, i.e. pre-primary,
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, including social
insurance);
(c) children with disabilities;
(d) the protection of children who are in need of alternative care
including the support of care institutions.3. Please provide
disaggregated statistical data (by sex, age, regions, urban or
rural areas) covering the period 1999-2001 on:
(a) children in domesticity;
(b) children in foster care; and
(c) orphan children.4. Please provide disaggregated statistical
data (by sex, age, regions, urban or rural areas) covering the
period 1999-2001 on the:
a) number and percentage of children with
disabilities;
b) number of children with disabilities either
taken care at home or living in institutions;
c) number of children with disabilities being enrolled in regular
education and how many benefit from the special education system.
In addition please indicate the number of schools and teachers
involved in the inclusive policy with regard to children with
disabilities and provide information on the causes of
disabilities.
5. Please provide disaggregated statistical data (by sex, age,
regions, urban or rural areas, private and public schools) covering
the period 1999-2001 in percentage of the relevant age group on
the:
(a) rates of literacy, below and over 18 years;
(b) enrolment in percentage of children in pre-school education,
primary and secondary schools;
(c) percentage of children completing primary and secondary
education;
(d) number and percentage of drop-outs, repetition and
retention;
(e) ratio teacher per children and number of children per
class;
(f) number of children in boarding schools and number and locations
of these schools; 6. Please provide disaggregated statistical data
on adolescent health, including sexually transmitted diseases
(STDs), HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, early and forced marriages, drug
and alcohol abuse, violence and physical abuse, suicide and mental
health concerns.7. Please provide the following statistical data of
children (disaggregated by sex, age, type of crime) for the last
three years (1999-2001):
a) number of minors who allegedly committed a crime
reported to the police;
b) number of minors who were sentenced by Courts to sanctions; the
nature of sanctions (community service; detention; other types of
sanctions);
c) the number of juveniles detained and imprisoned, the location of
their detention or imprisonment (e.g. police station, jail or other
place) and the lengths of their detention or imprisonment,
including pre-trial detention.
d) number of suspended sentences;
e) percentage of recidivism cases.
8. With reference to special protection measures, please provide
statistical data (including by sex, age, urban/rural areas) per
year between 1999 and 2001 on the number of children:
a) involved in sexual exploitation, including
prostitution, pornography, sale and trafficking and the number of
those children who were provided access with rehabilitation
treatments;
b) involved in substance abuse and the number of those children who
received rehabilitation treatments;
c) living in the streets and the number of them receiving social
(reintegration;
d) involved in child labour (formal or informal sectors, and
domestic work).
B. General Measures of Implementation
1. With regard to the Draft Code on Children, the Draft Family
Code, please provide further information on the steps taken to
adopt these Bills.
2. Please provide concrete information on national plans and
programmes to address
a) HIV/AIDS and its impact on children with particular attention
for measures taken to prevent mother-to-child transmission and to
care for HIV/AIDS orphans;
b) The problems related to exploitation of (sometimes very) young
children in domestic service, in particular with a view to prevent
their sexual exploitation, to support their social reintegration if
they leave the family and to ultimately ensure that no child is
employed or working under the minimum age which is foreseen under
ILO Convention 138.3. Please provide further information on
coordination between the different Governmental institutions
working for the implementation of the Convention. In this
connection, please provide information on the Committee set up
within the Ministry for Social Affairs referred to in para. 16 of
the State party report.
4. Please provide more information on the role of the Social
Welfare and Research Institute (IBESR) and of the Ombudsman Office
(Office de la Protection du Citoyen) in monitoring the Convention;
the human and financial resources provided to these institutions
and their effectiveness.
5. Please provide further information on measures taken to increase
awareness on the Convention among government officials, Please
provide additional information on how governmental institutions
cooperate with non-governmental organizations, especially
concerning the participation of representatives of civil society in
the design and implementation of policies and programmes for
children.
Part II
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.
Part III
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
Part IV
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 (and does not contain issues already covered in Part
I) as other issues might be raised in the course of the
dialogue.
The dialogue with the State party might include issues such
as:
1. Discrimination of vulnerable groups of children (e.g., child
domestics, children with disabilities, girls, children born out of
wedlock, children living and/or working in the
streets) and measures taken to reduce urban/rural
disparities, especially concerning access to health and social
services as well as to education.
2. Measures undertaken to provide access to birth registration to
all children born in the State party.
3. Measures taken regarding children deprived of a family
environment, such as orphans and abandoned children and on the use
of alternative care measures, such as foster care and adoption,
including non formal adoption, for children deprived of a family
environment.
4. Measures taken to combat and prevent child abuse, including
violence and sexual abuse within the family and in the school
system.
5. Specific measures undertaken to reduce infant, child and
maternal mortality, particularly in rural and marginal urban areas,
to ensure access to basic services such as clean drinking-water and
sanitation in all counties.
6. Reproductive health education for adolescents, including for
preventing the spread of STDs, HIV/AIDS among children and
adolescents. Measures taken for the protection of the rights of
children with disabilities. Existing measures to address children's
mental health and psychological problems.
7. Measures taken to improve school attendance, enrolment of girls,
to reduce the high repetition and drop-out rates, to improve
teacher's training, etc.
8. The juvenile justice system: the implementation of the 1961
Decree-Law and its compatibility with the provisions and principles
of the Convention.
9. Sexual exploitation, including child prostitution.
10. Measures taken to implement policies and programmes to combat
economic exploitation of children, and in particular the problem of
child domestics (
restaveks).
11. The scope of the phenomenon of street children.
12. Trafficking in children.