{"id":972,"date":"2016-02-10T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T09:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/stepitup\/?p=972"},"modified":"2019-02-24T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T17:28:14","slug":"call-for-submissions-on-joint-general-comment-on-children-in-the-context-of-international-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions on Joint General Comment on Children in the Context of International Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) have launched a call for submissions for a Joint General Comment on the human rights of children in the context of international migration.<\/p>\n<p>The submissions relate to the situation of human rights of the following categories of children (people under the age of 18) in the context of migration:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Children that migrate with their parents who are migrant workers;<\/li>\n<li>Children that are born to parents who are migrant workers in transit and destination countries;<\/li>\n<li>Migrant children that return to their country of origin, either voluntarily or by force, alone or with their parents;<\/li>\n<li>Children left behind by their parents (or one of them) who have migrated to another country; and<\/li>\n<li>Children that migrate unaccompanied and separated from their parents (for reasons such as seeking employment, family reunification or as victims of trafficking, labour exploitation and child labour).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main goal of this initiative is to contribute to improving the protection of the human rights of children which are, in the context of international migration, in a particular situation of vulnerability. Specific goals of this general comment include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Elaborating for State Parties and other key stakeholders guidelines for developing\u00a0 migration, childhood and related policies aimed at protecting and realizing the rights of children in the context of migration;<\/li>\n<li>Providing the CMW and CRC Committees with a specific tool to facilitate their role to monitor the implementation of the respective treaties in States parties as mandated by the Conventions;<\/li>\n<li>Promoting a clearly articulated interpretation of relevant provisions of the CMW and CRC to assist in the further implementation of the Conventions at the domestic level in both law and in practice; and<\/li>\n<li>Highlighting the relevance of a rights-based approach in relation to the phenomenon of children in the context of migration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information on can be found in the concept note which can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p>Concept note for the Joint General Comment<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmw25.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CRC_CMW-General-Comment-_7864_E.doc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Concept Note &#8211; English Version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmw25.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CRC_CMW-General-Comment-_7864_F.doc\" rel=\"\">Concept Note &#8211; French Version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cmw25.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CRC_CMW-General-Comment-_7864_S.doc\" rel=\"\">Concept Note &#8211; Spanish Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The\u00a0Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) have launched a call for submissions for a Joint General Comment on the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,25,26],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-of-migrant-workers","tag-children","tag-cmw","tag-crc","post-number-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmw25.mfasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}