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Recommended measures (3)

• Concerned that children without a residence permit are not considered eligible to be registered as patients with general practitioners and are entitled to emergency healthcare …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Provide de facto access for asylum-seeking children and children without residence permits to primary and mental healthcare services, and ensure that undocumented children have …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (b) Allocate more and earmarked resources to ensure that children in all municipalities receive the same level of healthcare and specialist health services

Recommended measures (3)

• Recalling its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention and general comment No. 20 (2016) on …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (a) Strengthen measures to prevent substance abuse among adolescents and ensure that adolescents have access to appropriate health and support services, including accessible and youth-friendly …
• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (b) Strengthen comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education in schools

Recommended measures (4)

• Welcoming the State Party’s commitment to protecting intersex children from violence and harmful practices, but concerned about persisting cases of medically unnecessary and irreversible surgery …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (a) Explicitly prohibit and adequately sanction the performance of involuntary, deferrable medical or surgical treatment on intersex children, and provide reparations to children who have …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (b) Provide social, medical and psychological services, as well as adequate counselling, peer support and reparations, to the families of intersex children
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  (c) Systematically collect data with a view to understanding the extent of these harmful practices so that children at risk can be more easily identified …

Recommended measures (4)

• Noting with concern the continued increase in income inequality and poverty, particularly among children from a migrant background, and the living conditions of children in …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Labour and Social Inclusion
  (a) Ensure the application of a child rights-based approach, including the principle of the best interests of the child and the right to participation, in …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  (b) Make statutory local action plans for combating poverty and conduct an assessment of the impact on child rights of all restrictive measures that affect …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Labour and Social Inclusion
  (c) Strengthen the implementation of concrete measures to prevent growing inequality and poverty, ensure that children and their families living in poverty receive, without discrimination, …

Recommended measures (5)

• Noting with concern the State Party’s ongoing and expanding oil and gas exploration, extraction and export and its current climate targets, which are not aligned …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Climate and EnvironmentMinistry of Energy
  (a) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the State Party’s international commitments and consider the impact of climate change on children’s rights in the …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Energy
  (b) Ensure that national policies related to the granting of new licences by the State Party for the exploration and production of fossil fuels is …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Energy
  (c) Urgently set out a detailed plan for phasing out fossil fuels and revise its climate and energy policies, in order to achieve a reduction …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansConsultationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Climate and EnvironmentMinistry of Energy
  (d) Ensure that children are heard and that their vulnerabilities, needs and best interests are taken into account in the development and implementation of national …

Recommended measures (6)

• The Committee recommends that the State Party:
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Local Government and Regional Development
  (a) Ensure equal educational opportunities for all, especially those belonging to vulnerable groups, including children with a migrant background, refugees and asylum-seeking children and children …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (b) Continue to strengthen measures to improve the quality of Sami-language education and take measures to improve the competence of teachers regarding the Sami and …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (c) Improve learning outcomes and reduce rising school dropout rates, particularly among migrant children, children belonging to minority groups, such as Roma and Sami children, …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (d) Reduce school absenteeism or “school refusal” among children who have been subjected to bullying and harassment, children with disabilities and children with mental health …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (e) Strengthen measures to combat violence in schools, including bullying, cyberbullying and online violence, and discrimination on the grounds of race, migration status, sexual orientation …

Recommended measures (3)

• Welcoming the programme to boost competencies in “special education” and inclusive practice, but concerned that many children with disabilities remain disproportionately vulnerable to bullying and …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (a) Strengthen measures to ensure that all children with disabilities benefit from inclusive education in mainstream schools, including through the provision of specialized staff and …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  (b) Ensure that municipalities have sufficient resources to ensure equal education for all students with disabilities

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture and EqualityMinistry of Children and Families
  Recalling its general comment No. 17 (2013) on the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts, the …

Recommended measures (10)

• Recalling its previous recommendations, and recalling joint general comments No. 3 and No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (a) Adopt legislation to ensure that adequate reception and care arrangements are available for all children, regardless of age, seeking to benefit from international protection
• Type of action: ResourcesInstitutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (b) Allocate more resources to reception centres where unaccompanied children live, and strengthen the inspection system
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  (c) Transfer responsibility to the child welfare services for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children aged 15 to 18, in order to ensure that they receive an equal …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (d) Ensure a child-friendly asylum process, including safeguarding the right of every child to be heard, guaranteeing that the best interests of the child are …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (e) Eliminate temporary residence permits for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children aged 16 to 18 and provide an interim measure until the asylum process is decided upon;
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (f) Ensure that the age-assessment procedure is in line with the principle of the presumption of minority and gives the individual concerned the opportunity to …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (g) Prohibit the detention of children in connection with immigration cases
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (h) Take immediate administrative measures to prevent and detect the disappearance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and improve investigation thereof
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  (i) Ensure that asylum-seeking children who arrive at reception centres accompanied by an adult without parental responsibility receive the quality of care to which they …

Recommended measures (5)

• Welcoming the establishment of the National Sami Competence Centre and the amicable resolution of the dispute between the Sør-Fosen reindeer-herding community and Fosen Vind DA …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development
  (a) To prevent the eviction and displacement of Indigenous peoples, including children, and provide redress to those evicted or displaced from their lands
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Regional DevelopmentMinistry of EnergyMinistry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
  (b) To put in place measures for early detection and timely intervention in cases of conflict in areas occupied by Indigenous peoples, undertaking peaceful dispute …
• Type of action: Institutions, practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development
  (c) To consult and cooperate in good faith with the Indigenous peoples concerned, including children, in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before …
• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Regional DevelopmentMinistry of Education and Research
  (d) To take effective measures to promote Indigenous languages, including through the provision of bilingual education to Indigenous children in their own Indigenous languages and …