YEMEN TO PARTAKE IN 52ND SESSION OF COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD

SANA'A, Sep.29 (Saba) - Yemen is to participate on Wednesday in the 52nd Session of Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.

The session is devoted to discuss the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Yemen's participating delegation led by Secretary General of the Higher Council for Motherhood and Childhood Nafisa al-Jaifi would discuss in the session the national report on the session's topic, Information Department Manager in the council Afrah Hammad made it clear to Saba.

The national report would include the taken measures to implement the protocol's items, Hammad said.

Hammad added that the report deals with the efforts exerted by Yemen in coordination with Saudi Arabia to combat trafficking children as well as carrying several awareness campaigns via media in this respect.

It is worthy to mention that Yemen acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography by Act No. 20 of 24 August 2004. Its first report was submitted in January 2008.

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