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Committee on the Rights of the Child - General Comments

The Committee on the Rights of the Child publishes its interpretation of the content of human rights provisions, in the form of General Comments on thematic issues.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued general comments on the following subjects:

No.	Subject	Languages		Date
No.	Subject	Word format	PDF format	Date
11	Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention	E \| R \| S	E \| F	2009
10	Children’s rights in Juvenile Justice	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| R \| S \| C \| A	2007
9	The rights of children with disabilities	E \| F \| S	E \| S	2006
8	The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2006
7/Rev.1	Implementing child rights in early childhood	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2005
6	Treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2005
5	General measures of implementation for the Convention on the Rights of the Child	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2003
4	Adolescent Health	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2003
3	HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2003
2	The role of independent human rights institutions	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2002
1	The aims of education	E \| F \| S	E \| F \| S	2001

The general comments of all human rights treaty bodies are compiled in the document
HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol.II)
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