CCPR/C/124/D/2734/2016 Returning the child to Italy, where he has never been, would not be in the child’s best interests, which should be a primary consideration in all actions concerning children, in accordance with by article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Denmark is a party. 8. Finally, Denmark has failed to consider the present general human rights and political situation in Italy, especially anti-immigration policies set up after the most recent general elections and the particularly difficult economic conditions that the country is facing within the European Union. 9. I would therefore have concluded that the State party has violated article 7 of the Covenant, since it failed to conduct a thorough and sufficient evaluation of whether the author and her son would be exposed to conditions constituting cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment if returned to Italy, thus rendering this return a particularly traumatic experience for them, especially for the child. GE.19-02298 13