UGOOD’s Child Expert Team has Developed and Published the Concluding Observations and Recommendations - CO&Rs both in English and Urdu and also Developed a Bilingual Child Friendly Versions while Hosting National Secretariats of “Child Rights Movement – CRM” and “National Action and Coordination Group – NACG” of “South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children -SAIEVAC” (An Apex Body of SAARC) 2016-2018 in Islamabad. The CO&Rs are widely have been distributing among all the key stakeholders including Parliamentarians, Journalists, the concerned Government Officials, Judges, Civil Society, General Masses and the Children themselves. A rigorous follow ups have been conducted with the concerned Ministries at the National Level and all the concerned Departments at the Provincial Level to ensure that steps are taken both at the Federal and Provincial Levels.

Pakistan is a Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and therefore the Government of Pakistan is obliged to submit a Periodic Report every five years to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about the steps been taken for the implementation of the UNCRC and the last Concluding Observations and Recommendations (CO&Rs). After the ratification, Pakistan had submitted its initial report in 1993, second periodic report in 1997, third and fourth combined report due in 2007 submitted in 2009 and fifth periodic report due 2012 was submitted in 2015 and considered in May-June 2016.

After each submission, the Committee on the Rights of the Child reviewed Pakistan’s Reports in light of Alternative Reports Submitted by Civil Society Organizations, and then issued Concluding Observations and Recommendations. Unfortunately there had never been prepared plan of action to implement the CO&Rs, therefore, the implementation of the CO&Rs remained very slow and poor which the Committee had regretted in its every Observations. National Secretariat of Child Rights Movement “United Global Organization of Development – UGOOD on behalf of Civil Society of Pakistan has submitted and presented its Alternative Report before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and most of the issues highlighted in the Report are a Part of the CO&Rs.