Syria and the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Art - News

Syria and the Convention on the Rights of the Child Lawyer: Daad Mousa Syria ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)on June 13, 1993, in pursuance of the Law No.(8). The Convention was put into effect on August 14, 1993, but Syria has had reservations about the Articles(20-21) relating to the adoption(of a child), as well as about the Article No.(14) related to a child to be titled to the freedom of thought, conscience and religion. On the other hand, Syria ratified the two Optional Protocols to (CRC) relating to selling children, involving them in prostitution and licentiousness and throwing them into armed encounters, pursuant to Decree No. (379), dated on October 10, 2002. In carrying out the CRC, the government took the following steps: Syria ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)on June 13, 1993, in pursuance of the Law No.(8). The Convention was put into effect on August 14, 1993, but Syria has had reservations about the Articles(20-21) relating to the adoption(of a child), as well as about the Article No.(14) related to a child to be titled to the freedom of thought, conscience and religion. On the other hand, Syria ratified the two Optional Protocols to (CRC) relating to selling children, involving them in prostitution and licentiousness and throwing them into armed encounters, pursuant to Decree No. (379), dated on October 10, 2002. In carrying out the CRC, the government took the following steps: .Preparing the first National report in 1995, and the second in 2002, carrying on CRC. .A Supreme Committee of Childhood in Syria was established according to resolution No.(1023). Dated in 1999. .A national schedule, considered as a national plan, was organized in 1990s, aiming at executing the International Declaration on a child survival, protection and growth. .Holding the National Conference for childhood dated on8-9/2/2004 from which many recommendations wee issued, the most important of which are: 1- Enacting the legislations which would protect the child from harm, violence, abuses and exploitation, and adjusting what to be adjusted of the current legislations. 2- Developing the social care centers for children and supplying them with the competent required cadres, along with concentrating on the care to come. Many ministerial laws and decision have been issued in order to activate CRC, some of which are: - A decision No.(2108) dated on 10/10/1999, issued by the Minister of Justice, which incumbents upon constituting a judicial committee to support families and children all around Syria. The task of the committee is to meet the members of families who suffer from homelike problems and made an application for divorce, repudiation or separation. It is also meant to hold meetings with families whose children experience homely problems or juvenile delinquencies and were prosecuted, in an effort to find out the appropriate solutions according to each case. But these committees are still un activated. - The law of essential education was amended under the Act No.(32) 2002/ to become obligatory until the end of the preparatory stage. - The personal status law was also amended under the decree No.(18) 2003/ concerning the increasing of nursing age to become as the following: (The nursing period is terminated when the age of thirteen is completed for boys, and that of fifteen for girls). The age of penal trailing was amended by virtue of decree No.(52) 2003/ where juveniles are not to be prosecuted unless they finish the age of ten, while it was seven in the past. Yet, children are in need to more caring and attention on every domain, for they constitute a large ratio of the inhabitants in Syria. On the other hand, on carrying out the Convention of the Rights of the child, the second National Report(2000) mentioned that( the age group under 15 forms 40 percent of the whole population, while the age from 1 year to 19 has the ratio of 52 percent).

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