List of issues : Nigeria. 14/10/2004.
CRC/C/Q/NGA/2. (List of Issues)

Convention Abbreviation: CRC
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Thirty-eighth session
Pre-sessional Working Group
4-8 October 2004
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
List of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the second periodic report of Nigeria (CRC/C/70/Add.24)
Part I

Note: The Committee has been informed that the State party has revised its second periodic report. The Committee would very much appreciate receiving the revised report as soon as possible. Please limit the responses to this list of issues to those that have not been answered in the revised report.

Under this section the State party is requested to submit in written form additional and updated information, if possible, before 25 November 2004:
A. Data and statistics, if available

1. Please provide disaggregated data (by gender, age groups, ethnic groups, administrative states, urban and rural areas) for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 on the number and proportion of children under 18 living in Nigeria.

2. In light of article 4 of the Convention, please provide additional disaggregated data for the years 2002, 2003 and 2004, on budget allocations and trends (in absolute figures and percentages of the national and regional budgets or GDP) allocated to the implementation of the Convention for the following areas:

a) education (different types of education, i.e. pre-primary, primary and secondary
education);
b) health care (different types of health services, i.e. primary health care, vaccination
programmes, adolescent health care and other health care services for children);
c) programmes and services for children with disabilities;
d) support programmes for families;
e) support for children living below the poverty line;
f) the protection of children who are in need of alternative care including the support of
care institutions;
g) programmes and activities for the prevention of and protection from child abuse and
child sexual exploitation and child labour;
h) programmes and services for street children and abandoned children; and
i) juvenile justice and the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.

Please also indicate the expenses of the private sector, in particular for health and education.

3. With reference to children deprived of a family environment and separated from parents, please provide disaggregated data (by gender, age groups, ethnic groups, administrative states, urban and rural areas) for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 on the number of children:

a) separated from their parents;
b) placed in institutions;
c) placed with foster families; and
d) adopted domestically or through inter-country adoptions.

4. Please specify the number of children with disabilities, disaggregated by gender, age groups, ethnic groups, for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003:

a) living with their families;
b) in institutions;
c) attending regular schools;
d) attending special schools; and
e) not attending schools.

5. With reference to child abuse, please provide disaggregated data (by age, gender, ethnic groups and types of violations reported) for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 on the:

a) number of reports received per year; and
b) number and percentage of reports per year which have resulted in either a court
decision or other types of follow-up.

6. Please provide disaggregated data (by gender, age groups, ethnic groups, administrative states, urban and rural areas) for the years for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003 on:

a) the enrolment, attendance and completion rates in percentages of the relevant group in
pre-primary schools, in primary schools and in secondary schools;
b) number and percentage of drop-outs and repetitions; and
c) ratio of teachers to students.

7. Please provide disaggregated statistical data (by gender, age groups, ethnic groups, administrative states, urban and rural areas) on infant and child mortality, malnutrition, early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), suicide, drug, alcohol, tobacco and other substance abuse for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003. Also, please provide numbers of health professionals working in the health care services for children.

8. Please provide disaggregated statistical data (by gender, age groups, ethnic groups, administrative states, urban and rural areas) on the number of children:
a) infected by HIV/AIDS;
b) affected by HIV/AIDS;
c) heading households due to HIV/AIDS;
d) orphans of HIV/AIDS living in extended families or institutions.

9. Please provide appropriate disaggregated data (including by gender, age, ethnic groups, and type of crime) for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003, in particular on the number of:

a) persons under 18 who have allegedly committed a crime, reported to the police;
b) persons under 18 who have been sentenced and type of punishment or sanctions related to offences including length of deprivation of liberty;
c) persons under 18 who have been sentenced by Shari'a courts and type of punishment or sanctions related to offences
d) detention for juvenile offenders (under 18) and their capacity;
e) persons under 18 detained in these facilities and minors detained in adult facilities;
f) persons under 18 kept in pre-trail detention and the average length of their detention;
g) reported cases of abuse and maltreatment of persons under 18 during their arrest and detention; and
h) persons under 18 tried and sentenced as adults.

10. With reference to special protection measures, please provide statistical data (including by gender, age, urban/rural areas) per year for 2001, 2002 and 2003 on the number of:

a) refugee children and internally displaced children;
b) children affected by sexual exploitation, including prostitution, pornography and trafficking;
c) street children;
d) children who received assistance in recovery and counselling;
e) children who were found engaging in forced and/or other forms of illegal child labour;
f) children who were involved in communal conflict or violence;
g) children aged 14-16 who are employed, or working; and
h) children using narcotics and drugs.

B. General Measures of Implementation


1. The Committee would appreciate receiving information on intended or planned activities related to recommendations contained in the Committee's previous concluding observations on the initial report of Nigeria (CRC/C/15/Add.61) which have not yet been fully implemented, in particular regarding: mainstreaming of customary law and regional and local legislation (para. 7), absence of adequate data collection systems (para. 9), insufficient allocation of resources for children (para. 10), lack of training and education on children's rights (para. 11), status and situation of girl children (para. 12), harmful traditional practices (para. 15), poverty (para. 17), sale, trafficking, sexual exploitation (para. 19), juvenile justice (para. 20), low age of criminal responsibility (para. 22), conditions of detention for children (para. 23), excessive use of force by law enforcement officials (para. 24) and economic exploitation (para. 25).2. Please indicate whether the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been invoked directly in domestic courts, and if so, please provide examples of such cases.

3. Please provide information on measures taken for a comprehensive review of all legislation, including any customary, religious, regional or local law in the State, to ensure compatibility with the Convention.4. Please provide information on the system of data collection and whether it covers all persons below 18 and all areas referred to in the Convention.5. Please provide a copy in English, of the Child Rights Act in May 2003, and information on the status of adoption of the Child Rights Act according to administrative states.

6. Please provide information on the institution in charge of the coordination of the implementation of the Convention, and update the Committee of any new initiatives or mechanisms that have been established to coordinate policies for children and to implement of the Convention at federal, state and local levels.

7. Please provide detailed information on the National Child Rights Implementation Committee (NCRIC) including its mandate, composition and the allocated human and financial resources, and indicate how the work of NCRIC impacts on children's daily life.

8. Please provide detailed information on the Department of Child Development in the Ministry of Women's Affairs, including its mandate, composition and the allocated human and financial resources, and indicate how the work of the Department impacts on children's daily life.

9. Please provide information on the Children's Parliament including its mandate, composition and the allocated human and financial resources, and indicate how the work of the Parliament impacts on children's daily life.

10. Please provide information on the Child Rights Information Bureau (CRIB) in the Ministry of Information, including its mandate, composition and the allocated human and financial resources.

11. Please provide information on the National Human Rights Commission in Nigeria, including its mandate, functions, human and financial resources made available to the Commission, number of cases investigated and their outcomes, and provide specific information on cases involving children (e.g. number and nature of complaints filed by, or on behalf of children). Furthermore, please indicate how this Commission is ensuring its independence, in light of the Paris Principles (General Assembly resolution 48/134, annex).

12. Please provide detailed information on the content of the National Plan of Action on children mentioned in the periodic report, paragraph 6, and the measures taken to implement the NPA.

13. Please provide updated information on efforts to disseminate the Convention and the State party report.

14. Please provide updated information on efforts made to provide training, awareness on the Convention and on human rights in general, to children, parents, teachers, social workers and other professionals working with/for children.

15. Please provide additional information on the cooperation between the State Party and the international community including non-governmental organisations, in the efforts to implement the Convention.

16. Please indicate the issues affecting children that the State party considers to be priorities requiring the most urgent attention with regard to the implementation of the Convention.

Part II

Please provide copies of the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in all official languages of the State party as well as in other languages or dialects, when available. If possible, please submit these texts in electronic form.

Part III

Under this section, the State party is to briefly (3 pages maximum) update the information provided in its report with regard to:

- new bills or enacted legislation
- new institutions
- newly implemented policies
- newly implemented programmes and projects and their scope.

Part IV

The following is a preliminary list of major issues (that does not contain issues already covered in Part I) that the Committee intends to take up during the dialogue with the State party. They do not require written responses. This list is not exhaustive as other issues might be raised in the course of the dialogue.

1. Adoption and implementation of the Child Rights Act at the state level;
2. Non-discrimination in general, in particular discrimination against girls, children born out of wedlock, children with disabilities and children belonging to minority groups;
3. Birth registration, in particular, of children of foreign parents and refugee parents;
4. Corporal punishment in the family, schools, other institutions and in the juvenile justice system as legal penal sentence;
5. Child abuse, neglect, and domestic violence;
6. Children deprived of family environment and alternative care;
7. Investment in healthcare system and the prevalence of illnesses such as malaria, diarrhoea and HIV/AIDS, and the quality of water and sanitation systems;
8. Lack of provisions for adolescent health;
9. Harmful traditional practices, in particular female genital mutilation and early/forced marriages;
10. Children with disabilities;
11. Quality of education, high levels of illiteracy;
12. Refugee/ internally displaced children and the lack of provisions for them;
13. Children affected by communal conflicts;
14. Drug and other substance abuse by children;
15. Economic exploitation, including forced labour;
16. Minority groups;
17. Increasing phenomenon of street children;
18. Sexual exploitation and trafficking;
19. Administration of juvenile justice.
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