The United Nations Special Session on Children was held in New York City on 8-10 May 2002.
More than 7,000 people participated in the most important international conference on children in more than a decade, the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children, at which the nations of the world committed themselves to a series of goals to improve the situation of children and young people.
For information on the outcomes from the Special Session, visit http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/index.html
Participating countries were asked to prepare a national review. Australia's National Review was submitted to UNICEF in March 2001.
You can read it at http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/followup_npa/index.html
Click on "How is your country doing?" then select "Australia".
Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski, participated in the Special Session. He consulted with children's and youth non-government organisations and Children's Commissioners in advance of the Special Session. Consultations were held in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Canberra and Broome.
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For more information on children's rights
Convention on the Rights of the Child - background and guide
http://www.unicef.org/crc/Children's rights in Australia
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children/index.htmlNational Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/index.htmlConvention on the Rights of the Child text
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/k2crc.htmILO Convention on Child Labour
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/ilo182.htmlOptional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.unicef.org/crc/index_30202.htmlTomorrow's Children: Australia's National Plan of Action Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/programs/families-tomorrow's_children.htmChild prostitution, pornography and trafficking
http://www.ecpat.org/
