4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Recommendations
r) take all necessary measures for realization of net increase in budget allocations for implementation of CRC, where possible with support of international financial institutions, bilateral and multilateral partners in accordance with art. 4 CRC, and taking into account arts. 2, 3 and 6 CRC
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 23
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Observations
n) efforts made in area of data collection
c) lack of adequate data-collection mechanism which allows for systematic and comprehensive collection of disaggregated quantitative and qualitative data on all areas covered by CRC in relation to all groups of children in order to monitor and evaluate progress achieved and assess impact of policies conducted with respect to children
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • persons deprived of their liberty
  • persons with disabilities
  • refugees and asylum-seekers
  Paragraph(s) 24
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Recommendations
r) strengthen efforts to establish comprehensive and permanent mechanism to collect data within national statistical system, disaggregated by gender, age, and rural and urban area incorporating all areas covered by CRC and covering all children below age of 18 years, with emphasis on those who are particularly vulnerable, i.e. separated children, children with disabilities, children in conflict with law, refugees and trafficked children
r) develop indicators to effectively monitor and evaluate progress achieved in implementation of CRC and assess impact of policies that affect children
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • persons deprived of their liberty
  • persons with disabilities
  • refugees and asylum-seekers
  Paragraph(s) 25
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Observations
n) efforts made to raise awareness of CRC through seminars and workshops
c) lack of awareness of CRC among professionals working with children, as well as in general public, including children themselves, including in remote and rural areas
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 26
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Recommendations
r) strengthen efforts to provide adequate and systematic training and sensitization on children's rights to professional groups working with and for children, such as parliamentarians, judges, lawyers, law enforcement and health personnel, teachers, school administrators and others as required, in particular in remote and rural areas
r) target public at large through, inter alia, radio and television
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 27
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Observations
n) activities of NGOs in area of child rights
c) insufficient efforts have been made to involve civil society in full implementation of CRC, particularly in awareness-raising of rights enshrined in CRC, among both public in general and during reporting process
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 28
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Recommendations
r) involve NGOs and other community-based groups, including children's associations, throughout all stages of implementation of CRC, including formulation of national plan of action, policies and programmes and in preparation of periodic reports to CRC
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 29
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
Recommendations
r) second periodic report and written replies submitted by State and related recommendations (concluding observations) that it adopted be made widely available, including (but not exclusively) through Internet, to public at large, civil society organizations, youth groups and children in order to generate debate and awareness of CRC, implementation and monitoring
  • Yemen
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 80
CRC/C/15/Add.267 (CRC, 2005)
CERD/C/YEM/CO/16 (CERD, 2006)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) adoption of policy of continuing education and awareness-raising programmes for members of judiciary, Department of Public Prosecutions and law enforcement officials
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 9 - Racial discrimination
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 4
CERD/C/YEM/CO/16 (CERD, 2006)
Recommendations
r) continue providing awareness-raising training programmes for members of judiciary, law enforcement officers, teachers, social workers and other public officials on provisions of ICERD
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 9 - Racial discrimination
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 21
CERD/C/YEM/CO/16 (CERD, 2006)
CEDAW/C/YEM/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2009)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
c) lack of clarity of the status of international instruments, including CEDAW, in the national legal system
C) CEDAW is not adequately disseminated amongst all stakeholders and the relevant bodies of the administration and the judiciary are not effectively trained on its provisions
  • Yemen
  • 4.1 - Legal framework
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • judiciary
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 12
CEDAW/C/YEM/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2009)
Recommendations
r) clearly establish the status of international conventions within its domestic legal framework, ensuring precedence of international instruments, including CEDAW, over national laws, and conformity of this legislation with these instruments
r) disseminate CEDAW and its general recommendations widely among all stakeholders, including government ministries, parliamentarians, the judiciary, political parties, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the general public
  • Yemen
  • 4.1 - Legal framework
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • judiciary
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 13
CEDAW/C/YEM/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2009)
Recommendations
r) improve the collection and analysis of statistical data, and to include in its next report statistical data and analysis on the situation of women, disaggregated by age, rural and urban areas, ethnicity and region, thus providing a clear picture of the situation of women in the State party
r) indicate the impact of measures taken and the results achieved in the practical realization of women’s substantive equality
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 51
CEDAW/C/YEM/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2009)
Recommendations
r) wide dissemination in the State party of the present concluding observations in order to make the people of Yemen, and particularly government administrators and politicians, aware of the steps that have been taken to ensure de jure and de facto equality for women and the future steps required in that regard
r) continue to disseminate widely, in particular to women’s and human rights organizations, CEDAW and OP-CEDAW; the general recommendations of CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; and the results of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace in the twenty-first century”


  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 56
CEDAW/C/YEM/CO/6 (CEDAW, 2009)
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) data provided on the number of children deported from neighbouring States and the number of street children assisted by safe childhood centres
c) general lack of information on the incidence of crimes under OP-CRC-SC and about the absence of an integrated national system for collecting and analysing data and information
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 6
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) a comprehensive data collection system be established in order to ensure that data, disaggregated, inter alia, by age, sex, socio-economic background and geographical area are systematically collected and analysed as they provide essential tools for measuring policy implementation
r) seek the technical assistance of United Nations agencies and programmes, including UNICEF, in this regard
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 7
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) the Committee reiterates the recommendation of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations to make the effort to undertake research on the extent and trends of the commercial sexual exploitation of children under 18 years in Yemen, so as to have the necessary information to adopt effective and time-bound measures to identify and reach out to children at special risk
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 8
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
w) efforts undertaken by the State party in promoting OP-CRC-SC, including information workshops for juvenile judges, prosecutors, social workers, imams, and schoolchildren
c) activities and programmes aimed at disseminating OP-CRC-SC and making its provisions known to the public, have not reached all stakeholders and governorates, especially families and communities in remote areas and children out of school
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.2 - Children: family environment and alternative care
  • children
  • general
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 17
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) continue and strengthen systematic education and training on the provisions of OP-CRC-SC for all relevant professional groups and in all governorates
r) promote, in line with article 9, paragraph 2, of OP-CRC-SC, awareness in the public at large, including children, through information by all appropriate means, education and training about the preventive measures and harmful effects of all the offences referred to in OP-CRC-SC, including by encouraging the participation of the community and, in particular, children and child victims of both sexes
r) information and education programmes should be adapted so as to reach also illiterate children and their families
r) replicate best practices such as the cartoon movie “Return of Ahmed”, which has been produced by UNICEF
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  • judiciary
  Paragraph(s) 18
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
c) notwithstanding the statement of the State party’s delegation that the lack of human and financial resources hampers the implementation of OP-CRC-SC, the Committee is concerned that the State party does not take adequate measures to fully implement its commitments under OP-CRC-SC
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 19
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) taking due account of the Committee’s recommendations following its 2007 Day of General Discussion on article 4 of CRC “Resources for the rights of the child – responsibility of States”, provide the necessary human and financial resources for the development and implementation of projects and plans, especially at local level, aimed at the prevention, protection, physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of child victims, and prosecution of the offences covered by OP-CRC-SC
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 20
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
c) the Committee, while noting information from the State party about the process of preparing the report, regrets the fact that not all civil society actors were adequately engaged in all stages of the preparation of the initial report under OP-CRC-SC
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 23
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
w) continuing coordination and collaboration with civil society
r) further strengthen such partnerships, in particular in relation to the implementation of the concluding observations, evaluation of progress made and also in the context of the next reporting process under CRC and OP-CRC-SC
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 24
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) the report and written replies submitted by the State party and related recommendations (concluding observations) adopted be made widely available, including through the Internet (but not exclusively), to the Supreme Court, and, in a simplified manner, to the public at large, civil society organizations, youth groups, professional groups, and the children’s parliament, in order to generate debate and awareness of OP-CRC-SC, its implementation and monitoring
  • Yemen
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 62
CRC/C/OPSC/YEM/CO/1 (CRC, 2009)
CAT/C/YEM/CO/2 (CAT, 2009)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) ongoing efforts by the State to reform its legislation, policies and procedures to ensure better protection of human rights, including the right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
w) State party’s signature of several memorandums of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2004, 2005 and 2007, including its commitment to prepare a refugee law and to promote it
w) various human rights education and training activities and the State party’s openness to international cooperation
  • Yemen
  • 4.1 - Legal framework
  • 4.2 - Institutions & policies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 12.1 - Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 5
CAT/C/YEM/CO/2 (CAT, 2009)