International norms protecting children’s human rights – Case study of Serbia

Gasmi, Gordana and Lutovac, Mitar and Prlja, Sanja (2017) International norms protecting children’s human rights – Case study of Serbia. Fiat Iustitita (1). pp. 116-128. ISSN 1224-4015

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Abstract

Republic of Serbia is part of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) with its Optional Protocols and therefore, obliged to implement its provisions and to submit relevant reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Committee). In 2008, the Republic of Serbia presented the Initial Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2010, Serbia presented the Initial Report on the Implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. The Second and Third periodic State Reports of Serbia were prepared and presented to the UN Committee at the beginning of the 2017. The UN Committee’s concluding remarks on both reports were publicly available at the internet presentation of the competent ministry and, later on, the Office for Human and Minority Rights of the Government of the Republic of Serbia at the beginning of February 2017. However, also were prepared the Second and Third Alternative Periodic Report, submitted to the UN Committee. Those alternative reports were written by NGOs in Serbia united in the Coalition for Monitoring Child Rights in Republic of Serbia, consisted of sixteen NGOs in Serbia. Those developments prove the dynamism of the implementation process. The study is dealing with the issue of the implementation level of the UN Committee recommendations related to the protection of the rights of the children in Serbia. In this context, both legal and institutional aspects are subject of the analysis. The purpose of the study is to explore the area for improvement of the child rights policy at national level on the basis of the example of Serbia. The final outcome of this paper is to formulate relevant recommendations for th e advancement of the implementation of international norms protecting children’s human rights.

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