OMCT Study on the need for a UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Children

In order to contribute to the reflexion on the internationalimplementation of the rights of the child, OMCT has undertaken a study into theworking of UN Human Rights mechanisms, which consists of two parts:

• An analysis on how and to what extent the existing special mechanisms have addressed violations of children's rights within their mandates, at both a theoretical (definition of the relevant mandate) and a practical (outcome as described in the 2001 reports) level.

• An analysis of OMCT Urgent Appeals in 1999 and 2000 covering a total number of roughly 400 child victims of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The analysis aimed at finding out whether the appeal cases provoked any response by existing mechanisms and how effective the different mechanisms worked with regard to OMCT urgent appeals concerning children.