on communications and in Concluding Observations, including follow-up visits to States;
the Committee should in particular have followed up on the implementation by Kenya,
Uganda and Senegal in the Children on Nubian Descent case, the Children in Northern
Uganda case and the Senegalese Talibés case;
• should be undertaking regular missions to countries where children are in crisis and
should be holding widely-published public hearings on issues of importance to children’s
rights;
• should be widely published and visible in its activities; a complete and updated record
of its activities, including State reports, C Observations, mission reports and its annual
reports, should be easily accessible on its website and other formats;
• should, in collaboration with its partners, have developed and widely disseminated
evidence-based communication and advocacy tools on the rights of children in Africa;
• should have significantly reduced delays in finalising submitted communications;
• should have interpreted the African Children’s Charter as an autochthonous instrument
in its jurisprudence, Concluding Observations and interpretive elaborations;
• should be collaborating with the African Commission through regularly-held meetings
between them, in order to identify synergies, gaps, complementarities and to exchange
experiences, lessons and knowledge (including jurisprudence) and to avoid the
unnecessary duplication of efforts;
• should have engaged the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) with a view to
closer collaboration between the APRM process and State reporting under the African
Children’s Charter;
• should, within the framework of the African Governance Architecture (AGA), consistently
be engaging relevant AU organs on matters of joint concern, such as the Peace and
Security Council, the Pan-African Parliament, and the AU’s Economic, Social and Cultural
Council.
By 2020, African Union’s -
• political organs should have ensured the required resources to strengthen the human
resource and institutional capacity of the African Children’s Rights Committee, allowing
it to appoint on a permanent basis at least two legal officers and to undertake at least six
missions per year;
• Executive Council and Assembly should consistently have included an item on their
agenda on the rights of the child;
• political organs should, in collaboration with the African Children’s Committee and
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