General Documents Not Relating To Specific States

General Comments or Recommendations

CRC

CRC General Comment 1 (Article 29.1: The Aims of Education)

CRC General Comment 2 (The role of independent national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child)

CRC General Comment 3 (HIV/AIDS and the Rights of the Child)

CRC General Comment 4 (Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child)

CRC General Comment 5: (Articles 4, 42 and 44(6): General measures of implementation for the Convention on the Rights of the Child)

CRC General Comment 6 (Treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin)

CRC General Comment 7 (Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood)

CRC General Comment 8 (The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia))

CRC General Comment 9 (The rights of children with disabilities)

CRC General Comment 9 (The rights of children with disabilities) [Correction]

CRC General Comment 10 (Children’s rights in Juvenile Justice)

CRC General Comment 11 (Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention)

CRC General Comment 12 (The right of the child to be heard)

CRC General Comment 13 (The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence)

CRC Draft General Comment on Child Rights and the Business Sector

General Comments or Recommendations on Bayefsky.com are as of November 2012. To update use the UN website search engine here.

A treaty body may adopt General Comments or Recommendations, which are official statements adopted by the Committee that elaborate on the meaning of treaty obligations. Some General Comments or Recommendations may be procedural in nature, others may address substantive provisions of the treaty and provide the Committee's interpretation of treaty rights.

CERD and CEDAW refer to these official statements as “General Recommendations” and CED, CRPD, CCPR, CESCR, CAT, CRC and CMW refer to them as “General Comments”.