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Human Rights Instruments Localized Response to Realizing Children Rights
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What do you know about the local laws/policies that protect the rights of children in Belize?
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Human Rights Instruments
Localized Response to Realizing Children Rights
Belize’s Compliance is ensured by two mechanisms that are interrelated and interdependent:
UN Reporting Mechanism (requirement as a signatory)
National Committee for Families and Children (instituted to oversee Belize’s compliance with its international and national commitments to children)
Reporting Mechanism
Ratification of the
CRC
•1990
Submission of State Reports
•Initial – 2 yrs after ratification
•Periodic – Every 5 yrs thereafter
Information Gathering Period
•State Report
•Parallel Reports
•Reports from UN Agencies
•Reports from other International Cooperation Partners
Dialogue with the
CRC Committee
Concluding Observations
Issued
Interventions by the State to
address concluding
Observations
NCFC
Concluding Observations 2005
Data Environment Harmony on age issues Children’s Ombudsman Disability Awareness Allocate appropriate funds to address
the issues of the CRC
Families and Children Act
(FACA)
Articulating rights in our legislation
General Principles of FACA
FACA is grounded in the (54) articles of the CRC. Each article is indivisible and its articles are interdependent.
FACA provides that the child is entitled to the rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child with appropriate modifications to meet Belizean conditions.
Terms of Reference
BELIZEFAMILIES AND CHILDREN ACT
CHAPTER 173REVISED EDITION 2000
SHOWING THE LAW AS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 2000This is a revised edition of the law, prepared by the Law Revision Commissioner
under the authority of the Law Revision Act, Chapter 3 of the Laws of Belize,Revised Edition 1980 - 1990.
This edition contains a consolidation of the following laws- PageARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 3
FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ACT 16Amendments in force as at 31st December, 2000.
National Committee for Families and Children (NCFC)
Who is the NCFC?
The NCFC Timeline
National Child System Protection Sub-systems
Judicial Legal Social
National Plan of Action
A Collaborative Response
The NPA is…
a consolidation of Belize’s international and regional commitments to children and adolescents.
dictated by national development priorities for children.
Common Strategies
Development and implementation of effective national policies.
Research and data gathering to inform policy and programme development and implementation.
Training, education and capacity building to promote goals and targets.
Coordination and Networking Monitoring and Evaluation
Belizean CRCEducation
Health
Child Protection
HIV/AIDS
Family
Culture
N
2004:CURRENT
SITUATION
2015:DESIRED
SITUATION-Improved
life for children &
adolescents (Goals &
Objectives)
P
A
INTERVENTIONS
GUID
E
STRATEGIES/ACTIONS:
DETERMINE HOW TARGETS
ARE ACHIEVED
TARGETS:ENABLE
EFFECTIVE MONITORING;
DEFINE THE OUTCOME OF
WHAT IS TO BE ACHIEVED
STRUCTURE OF THE NPA
Where do you fit in?
