COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Sixteenth session
SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 399th to 426th MEETINGS
Held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva,
from 22 September to 10 October 1997
Corrigendum
The present document contains the corrections received from participants and the Secretariat applying to the English text of the summary records of the meetings of the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its sixteenth session (CRC/C/SR.399426).
With the issuance of the present corrigendum, the summary records of the above‑mentioned meetings are to be considered final.
403rd meeting
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The speaker’s name should read Ms. Frost
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Replace encouraged young people to live at home while studying or
by encourages young people to participate in education and
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Replace consisted of by includes
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Replace extremely by unacceptably
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: replace would be by to be
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Replace the existing text by the following:
Government were not self-executing and require legislative implementation to be effective in Australian law. Leaving aside legislation and practice to implement treaties, they may be used as a source for the development of the common law and in the interpretation of legislation.
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Line 2: replace all treaties, whether past or future by treaties
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that the High Court decision created an imbalance between the accepted roles of the executive arm and the legislature. It is the
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after Australia delete was
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and it is therefore important to maintain its proper role in relation to treaties.
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Line 4: replace felt about by wanted to participate in
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Line 7: replace Children also had with At an agency level, children have
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Line 9 should read: up in most State primary and high schools. As far as policy-making at a higher level was
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After children insert and to assist them in making complaints
404th meeting
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Line 6: delete It was easy to understand that
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Replace extreme by exploitative
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Line 2: replace workplace by Federal Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
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The speaker’s name should read Ms. STANFORD
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Aboriginals. Also, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission had responsibilities in anti-racism education as part of the means of remedying the situation. The Government had also announced a specific anti-racism advertising campaign.
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Before State insert Commonwealth and
405th meeting
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Replace courts by jurisdictions
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An example of innovation was a children’s legal centre in
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After he insert or she
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Line 3: replace on the subject and the report on by based on home visiting.
Line 4: replace that programme by The research for home programmes
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Replace partnership by partnerships
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After way insert in New South Wales
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Line 1: replace National Children’s and Youth Law Centre by legal centre referred to earlier
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project, the local community was encouraged to identify street children to a special welfare service so as to ensure early intervention; that had proved to be the most effective approach.
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Replace Ministry by Minister
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must be completed and the signature of a doctor was required. Such
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decisions should be reviewed by a Magistrate as soon as possible after the admission. A person who is ordered by the Magistrate to be detained can appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal. The
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considered it very unwise to force a child into treatment, on rare occasions that might occur. Scheduling
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a doctor is reluctant to hold children against their will. There were health care complaints units of which patients could avail themselves.
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Counsellor, but there were no formal hearings. Children had applied to children’s legal centres, which had taken up the expulsion issue for them.
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406th meeting
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After results delete remaining text
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Replace five other countries by his country
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Replace the existing text by the following:
In fact, the Deputy Director-General of ILO had expressed ILO’s satisfaction with the Committee’s cooperation and work during the informal meeting held with Committee members during its fourteenth session.
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would continue to transmit any information relevant to its work.
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recommendation drawn up concerned types of work that could be hazardous for children.
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415th meeting
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Before ensured insert further
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After Action insert for the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
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After earmark insert additional
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Replace Local by Social
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Replace International Court of Justice by Centre for Justice and International Law, Caribbean Office
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Replace Right by Rights
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in 1995 had made it
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Line 8: after met should read present requirements.
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Replace subsidies by subventions
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Delete now
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Before Development insert Social
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Delete the need for
417th meeting
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Replace prevail, certainly with regard to remand homes which by prevail; these facilities
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Replace that plan by the Task Force monitoring implementation of the Action Plan
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Replace She hoped that she by She hoped that the delegation
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