Committee on the Rights of the Child

Committee on the Rights of the Child Contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in response to a call for inputs by the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 16 March 2020

Introduction

The President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) invited functional commissions and other intergovernmental bodies and forums such as the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) to provide a focused input to the 2020 HLPF and ECOSOC on the theme “Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development.” The Committee hereby provides its input with a view to:

Highlight the views on how best to accelerate action and achieve transformative pathways so as to realize the decade of action and delivery for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for children;

Focus on the area of responsibility of the Committee but also reflect the interrelations with other SDGs and targets;

Highlight how the Committee is contributing to accelerating SDGs progress; and

Identify action points for possible use in the HLPF declaration.

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