2.1 - Status of international instruments
CRC/C/15/ADD.172 (CRC, 2002)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Recommendations
r) implement measures and develop mechanisms to prevent illegal transfer or non‑return of minors
r) adopt and implement international and domestic legislation to address these concerns, including 1980 Hague Convention No. 28 on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and 1996 Hague Convention No. 34 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for Protection of Children

  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 35.2 - Children: family environment and alternative care
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 43
CRC/C/15/ADD.172 (CRC, 2002)
Recommendations
r) ratify ILO Conventions 138 concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment and 182 concerning Prohibition and Immediate Action for Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour

  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 65
CRC/C/15/ADD.172 (CRC, 2002)
Recommendations
r) consider ratification of:
- OP-CRC-AC
- OP-CRC-SC
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • 35.5 - Children in armed conflict
  • children
  • persons affected by armed conflict
  Paragraph(s) 74
CRC/C/15/ADD.172 (CRC, 2002)
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
c) although country has been a State partie to CEDAW since 1997, there is still not adequate knowledge about rights of women under CEDAW in Mozambican society in general, including among judiciary, and in particular at level of community courts
c) women themselves are not aware of their rights under CEDAW and thus lack capacity to claim them
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • persons deprived of their liberty
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 14
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Observations
n) State's ratification of Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 13 - Prohibition of slavery, trafficking
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • children
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 26
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Recommendations
r) ratify OP-CEDAW and accept, as soon as possible, amendment to art. 20, paragraph 1, CEDAW concerning meeting time of CEDAW
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 46
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Observations
n) adherence to the seven major international human rights instruments enhances enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms in all aspects of life
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • children
  • general
  • migrants
  • migrant workers
  • minorities/ racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious or descent-based groups
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 49
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Recommendations
r) consider ratifying treaties to which it is not yet a party, namely, ICESCR, ICRMW
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 34.1 - Elimination of discrimination against women
  • general
  • migrants
  • migrant workers
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 49
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) accession to or ratification of the following:
- OP-CRC-AC, on 18 October 2004
- OP-CRC-SC, on 6 March 2003
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 20 September 2006
- Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, on 9 December 2005 and Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, on 17 July 2004
- ILO Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (No. 138) and ILO Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (No. 182), on 16 June 2003
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 13 - Prohibition of slavery, trafficking
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • children
  • persons affected by armed conflict
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 4
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
c) adequate information about domestic and intercountry adoption has not been provided in the State party’s report
c) current legislation makes no distinction between intercountry and domestic adoption, therefore not applying the principle of subsidiarity
c) there is no preparation by professionals of prospective adoptive parents and children for the adoption
c) qualified officials do not select the children for adoption and allow prospective adoptive parents to make the choice
c) state party has still not ratified the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption of 1993
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 35.2 - Children: family environment and alternative care
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 55
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) provide comprehensive information about adoption in its next periodic report
r) establish and implement strict and specific regulations for domestic and intercountry adoptions, harmonize adoption procedures with CRC and ensure strict supervision of the adoption process by the Social Welfare Services
r) ensure that children and prospective adoptive parents are adequately prepared by qualified professionals
r) ensure that qualified officials are responsible for choosing the adoptive family which best responds to the needs of children
r) strengthen the Social Welfare Services with adequate human and financial resources to carry out their responsibilities in ensuring implementation and monitoring of the adoption procedures as required by the new Family Law
r) consider ratifying the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, which will help the State party to ensure the best interests of the child
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 35.2 - Children: family environment and alternative care
  • children
  Paragraph(s) 56
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
c) while noting that some measures have been taken to prevent and treat mental disabilities among children and train teachers for specialized education, the Committee is concerned that in spite of its previous recommendations (CRC/C/14/Add.172., paras. 48 and 49), insufficient measures have been adopted to ensure that children with disabilities fully enjoy their rights, in particular their rights to health and education
c) limited number of school facilities and materials adapted to these children and at the highly inadequate number of specialized teachers, resulting in a high percentage of children with disabilities being deprived of education or abandoning school during the first years of primary education
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 7 - Non-discrimination
  • 30 - Right to health
  • 31 - Right to education
  • children
  • persons with disabilities
  Paragraph(s) 59
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) consider ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
r) take all necessary measures to ensure the implementation of legislation providing protection and equal access to education for children with disabilities, in a gender-sensitive manner
r) make every effort to provide appropriate inclusive programmes and services for all children with disabilities and ensure that such services receive adequate human and financial resources
r) undertake awareness programmes to sensitize the public about the rights and special needs of children with disabilities and encourage their inclusion in society
r) provide training for professional staff working with children with disabilities, such as teachers, social workers, and medical, paramedical and related personnel
r) ensure the participation of children with disabilities and their families in policy and programme planning, monitoring and evaluation
r) take into consideration the Committee’s general comment No. 9 (2006) on the rights of children with disabilities
  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 7 - Non-discrimination
  • 30 - Right to health
  • 31 - Right to education
  • children
  • persons with disabilities
  Paragraph(s) 60
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
w) ratification by the State party of OP-CRC-AC and OP-CRC-SC

  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 35.3 - Children: protection against exploitation
  • 35.5 - Children in armed conflict
  • children
  • persons affected by armed conflict
  Paragraph(s) 92
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) promptly submit initial reports under the two Optional Protocols to CRC
r) accede to all core human rights instruments, including ICESCR, and ensure prompt compliance with implementation and reporting requirements in order to promote and improve the overall protection of human rights

  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • children
  • persons affected by armed conflict
  Paragraph(s) 93
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
CRC/C/15/ADD.172 (CRC, 2002)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Recommendations
r) (in light of art. 44, paragraph 6 CRC) initial report and written replies submitted be made widely available to public at large and consideration be given to publishing report, along with relevant summary records and concluding observations adopted thereon by CRC
r) such document be widely distributed in order to generate debate and awareness of CRC and its implementation and monitoring at all levels of administration of State and among general public, including concerned NGOs
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 75
CRC/C/15/ADD.172 (CRC, 2002)
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Recommendations
r) State's obligation to systematically and continuously implement all provisions of CEDAW
CEDAW views concerns and recommendations identified in present concluding comments as requiring State's priority attention between now and submission of next report
r) focus on those areas in implementation activities and report on actions taken and results achieved in next report
r) submit present concluding comments to all relevant ministries and to Parliament so as to ensure their full implementation
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 9
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Recommendations
i) wide dissemination of present concluding comments in order to make people, including government officials, politicians, parliamentarians and women's and human rights organizations, aware of steps that have been taken to ensure de jure and de facto equality of women, as well as the further steps that are required in that regard
i) continue to disseminate widely, in particular to women's and human rights organizations, CEDAW, OP-CEDAW, CEDAW's general recommendations, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and outcome of twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century"
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • 6 - Right to an effective remedy, impunity
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 50
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
Recommendations
i) respond to concerns expressed in present concluding comments in next report under art. 18 CEDAW
r) submit third periodic report, which was due in May 2006, and fourth periodic report, due in May 2010, in a combined report in 2010
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • general
  • women
  Paragraph(s) 51
CEDAW/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CEDAW, 2007)
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Annotation Country Right Affected Person
Observations
w) efforts to implement the Committee’s concluding observations on the State party’s initial report (CRC/C/15/Add.172)
c) some of the concerns and recommendations have been insufficiently or only partly addressed
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • general
  • persons with disabilities
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 7
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) the Committee refers the State party to its general comment No. 5 (2003) on general measures of implementation for CRC and recommends that it take all necessary measures to address the recommendations from the concluding observations of the initial report that have not yet been implemented or sufficiently implemented, including those related to the allocation of resources, children with disabilities, children living on the street, child labour, corporal punishment, and child abuse and neglect
r) provide adequate follow-up to the recommendations contained in the present concluding observations on the second periodic report
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • children
  • persons with disabilities
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 8
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Observations
n) a consumer survey was conducted in 2008 and a multiple indicator cluster survey in 2009 which will provide a comprehensive overview of the status of key indicators related to CRC
c) lack of up‑to‑date, comprehensive and accurate data and information from the national data collection system in the State party’s report
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • persons living in poverty
  • persons with disabilities
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 23
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) continue strengthening statistical system with the support of its partners, and to use the data collected and analysed as a basis for assessing progress achieved in the realization of child rights and to help design policies to implement CRC
r) ensure that the information collected contains up-to-date data on a wide range of vulnerable groups including rural children, children with disabilities, children living in poverty, children living in the streets and working children, especially in disadvantaged areas, disaggregated by gender, region and age
  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • 4.3 - Context, statistics, budget, training, dissemination, civil society
  • children
  • persons living in poverty
  • persons with disabilities
  • street children
  Paragraph(s) 24
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) promptly submit initial reports under the two Optional Protocols to CRC
r) accede to all core human rights instruments, including ICESCR, and ensure prompt compliance with implementation and reporting requirements in order to promote and improve the overall protection of human rights

  • Mozambique
  • 2.1 - Status of international instruments
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • children
  • persons affected by armed conflict
  Paragraph(s) 93
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)
Recommendations
r) take all appropriate measures to ensure that the present recommendations are fully implemented, inter alia by transmitting them to the members of the Council of Ministers, the National Assembly, the Supreme Court and local Governments for appropriate consideration and further action



  • Mozambique
  • 3.1 - Cooperation with treaty bodies
  • children
  • general
  Paragraph(s) 94
CRC/C/MOZ/CO/2 (CRC, 2009)