Progressing the Government’s Response to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations

09 October 2026.

This paper seeks Cabinet agreement to Progress the Government’s Response to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations by publishing the Concluding Observations and associated actions on the Human Rights Monitor.

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Coversheet (PDF 183.38KB)

Cabinet paper – Progressing the Government’s Response to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations (PDF 129.58KB)

Appendix 1 - High Level Summary and assessment of the Government actions in response to the UNCRC recommendations (PDF 3.51MB)

Appendix 2 - UNCRC actions that progress the full intent of the recommendation (PDF 2.62MB)

Appendix 3 - UNCRC recommendation is appropriately addressed by existing operational practices (PDF 11.71MB)

Appendix 4 - UNCRC actions that partially progress the recommendation (PDF 3.21MB)

Appendix 5 - UNCRC recommendations that are not currently being progressed (PDF 10.38MB)

SOU-26-MIN-0066 Minute (PDF 113.2KB)

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Coversheet (Word 55.25KB)

Cabinet paper – Progressing the Government’s Response to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Concluding Observations (Word 31.94KB)