Since 2001, the Committee has issued a total of twenty-six General Comments to assist in the proper interpretation and implementation of children's rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on topics such as the environment and climate change, the digital environment, juvenile justice, health, or international migration. These Comments are variable-length documents periodically prepared by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Convention is a living document, whose implementation must be constantly monitored.
The General Comments are:
- General Comment 26: Regarding children's rights and the environment, with particular attention to climate change (2023).
- General Comment 25: Regarding children's rights in relation to the digital environment (2021).
- General Comment 24: Regarding children's rights in the juvenile justice system (2019).
- General Comments (2001-2017)
- General Comment 23: On the obligations of States regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination, and return, adopted jointly with the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (General Comment No. 4) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Comment No. 23) (2017).
- General Comment 22: On the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration, adopted jointly with the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (General Comment No. 3) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Comment No. 22) (2017).
- General Comment 21: On children in street situations (2017).
- General Comment 20: On the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence (2016).
- General Comment 19: On public budgeting for the realization of children's rights (art. 4) (2016).
- General Comment 18: On harmful practices, adopted jointly by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (General Recommendation No. 31) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Comment No. 18) (2014).
- General Comment 17: On the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life, and the arts (Article 31) (2013).
- General Comment 16: On State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children's rights (2013).
- General Comment 15: On the right of the child to the highest attainable standard of health (Article 24) (2013).
- General Comment 14: On the right of the child for their best interests to be a primary consideration (Article 3, paragraph 1) (2013).
- General Comment 13: The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence (2011).
- General Comment 12: The right of the child to be heard (2009).
- General Comment 11: Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention (2009).
- General Comment 10: Children's rights in juvenile justice (2007).
- General Comment 9: The rights of children with disabilities (2006).
- General Comment 8: The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (Article 19, paragraph 2 of Article 28, and Article 37, among others) (2006).
- General Comment 7: Implementing children's rights in early childhood (2005).
- General Comment 6: Treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin (2005).
- General Comment 5: General measures of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles 4 and 42 and paragraph 6 of Article 44) (2003).
- General Comment 4: Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2003).
- General Comment 3: HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child (2003).
- General Comment 2: The role of independent national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child (2002).
- General Comment 1: The aims of education (Article 29, paragraph 1) (2001).
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