The implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence 2016, para. 31
Paragraphe- Paragraph text
- The Committee has previously highlighted the widespread prejudice, exclusion, social isolation and discrimination faced by many children with disabilities. Adolescents with disabilities are, in many States, commonly excluded from opportunities available to other adolescents. They can be barred from participating in social, cultural and religious rites of passage. Significant numbers are denied access to secondary or tertiary education or vocational training, and consequent acquisition of the social, educational and economic skills necessary for future employment and freedom from poverty. They are widely denied access to sexual and reproductive health information and services and may be subjected to forced sterilization or contraception, which is in direct violation of their rights and can amount to torture or ill-treatment. Adolescents with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable to physical and sexual violence, as well as child or forced marriage, and are routinely denied access to justice or redress.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2016
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- CRC General Comment No. 20, The implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence (2016), para. 31.
- Paragraph number
- 31
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