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procedure, States parties are requested to inform the relevant committee
on measures taken to implement the committee’s recommendations in
individual cases where the committee has found that the State party was
in breach of its treaty obligations. It should also be noted that OHCHR and
other United Nations entities follow up through technical assistance and
advocacy. Follow-up in this sense is separate from the committees’ followup procedures; it comes under the general role of technical assistance of
the United Nations.
✔✔ General comments. All treaty bodies prepare general comments—
sometimes referred to as general recommendations5—to elaborate
the meaning of specific provisions or themes in treaties, with a view to
assisting States parties to implement them and strengthening the enjoyment
of specific rights by rights holders.
✔✔ Request for studies of the Secretary-General. The Convention on the Rights
of the Child stipulates that its Committee may recommend that the General
Assembly request the Secretary-General to undertake on its behalf studies
on specific issues relating to the rights of the child (art. 45 (c)). Two such
studies have been undertaken so far: one on the impact of armed conflict
on children (1996) and another on violence against children (2006).
These two studies have led to the establishment of Special Representatives
of the Secretary-General for these two issues.
✔✔ Address the General Assembly. If the Committee on Enforced
Disappearances receives information which appears to it to contain
well-founded indications that enforced disappearance is being practised
on a widespread or systematic basis in a territory under the jurisdiction
of a State party, the Committee may, after seeking from the State party
concerned all relevant information on the situation, urgently bring the
matter to the attention of the General Assembly of the United Nations,
through the Secretary-General.
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