The Open Line Volunteer Group and Human Rights House in Uzbekistan, and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), based in exile, with support from the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), prepared a joint NGO submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
This submission covers the following topics:
- High child mortality rates in polluted areas of Surkhandarya Region
- Children born to women prisoners in prison colony No. 21 (KIN-21), and
- Children of women prisoners in prison colony No. 42 (KIN-42)
The document also includes a list of recommendations to Uzbekistan, based on the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Read the submission here.