13th Meeting - 4th Regular Session of Human Rights…

15:00 - 18:00 - 13th Plenary Meeting

Special event: "Violence Against Children"

SPEAKERS:

• Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Kyung-Wha Kang
• Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Ms. Moushira Khattab
• Report of the Independent Expert for the United Nations study on violence against children (A/61/299), Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
• Uruguay (as Organizer of the Special event), Ms. Pauline Davies

General Comments:

• Germany on behalf of the European Union, Ms. Anke Konrad
• Norway on behalf of the Nordic Countries, H.E. Mrs. Astrid Helle Ajamay
• Argentina, Mr. Sergio Cerda
• Egypt, Ms. Mahy Abdel Latif
• Mexico, Ms. Elia del Carmen Sosa Nishizari
• Australia, Ms. Lara Nassau
• Uzbekistan, Mr. Kanyazov Esemurat
• New Zealand, Ms. Nicola Hill
• India, Mr. Rajiv Chander
• United Kingdom, H. E. Mr. Nicholas Thorne
• Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference), Mr. Marghoob Saleem Bute
• Malaysia, Ms. Margaret Ho Poh Yeok
• Ecuador, Mr. Luis Vayas Valdivieso
• Morocco, H. E. Mr. Mohammed Loulichki
• Brazil, H. E. Mr. Sérgio Abreu E Lima Florencio
• Tunisia, H. E. Mr. Samir Labidi
• Cuba, Mr. Yuri Ariel Gala Lopez
• Japan
• China
• Canada
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Slovenia

Non Governmental Organizations:

• Save the Children Alliance
• Human Rights Advocates in a joint statement
• International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations
• World Population Foundation
• Union de l'action féminine
• World Organization Against Torture
• Association for World Education

Intergovernemental Organizations:

• UNICEF
• WHO
• ILO
• NGO Advisory Group for the United Nations Study on Violence Against Children
• Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Director of the Division of Human Rights Procedures, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Answers by the Independent Expert for the United Nations study on violence against children

• Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro