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Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Teaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should enforce the right of all Sami children of school age to Sami-language education and ensure that the new Education Act significantly …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should undertake research on violence against and sexual abuse of children among the Sami population, develop specific intervention measures and ensure that …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansAwareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Local Government and ModernisationMinistry of Culture
  The State party should increase its efforts to combat discrimination, hate speech and violence against Sami children, Roma children and children from other minority groups, …

Recommended measures (6)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansAwareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should step up its efforts to combat stereotypical and discriminatory attitudes and discriminatory practices towards Sami individuals and the Sami peoples.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesConsultationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should ensure meaningful consultation with the Sami peoples in practice and adopt a law for consultations with a view to obtaining their …
• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should address any outstanding concerns and facilitate the speedy adoption of the Nordic Sami Convention.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Trade, Industry and FisheriesMinistry of Agriculture and FoodMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should enhance the legal framework on Sami land, fishing and reindeer rights, ensuring in particular that fishing rights are recognized by law.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansFollow-up of recommendationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure effective and speedy follow-up to the proposals of the Sami Rights Committee of 2007 regarding land and resource rights in …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should increase the recruitment and training of Sami language teachers and increase the availability of Sami language instruction for Sami children in …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to prevent violence and abuse against older persons, including by identifying and addressing the root …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should strengthen effective policies and procedures to identify and support child victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, as well as children who …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should undertake specific efforts to eliminate discrepancies in the application of the definition of trafficking by municipalities, which is particularly necessary with …
• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should allocate additional resources to identify perpetrators of such crimes and bring them to justice.
• Type of action: ResourcesPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should improve coordination in providing assistance to child victims of trafficking.
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should conduct research to better assess the scope of trafficking in the State party.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The Committee welcomes the Fritidserklæringen declaration, which enables Norwegian children to participate free of charge in an activity in their spare time. It draws the …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Labour and Social Affairs
  While noting the introduction of the strategy “Children Living in Poverty (2015–2017)”, the Committee, in the light of ongoing child poverty, draws the State party’s …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should allocate sufficient resources to the mental health sector, both in general and according to the individual needs of each municipality.
• Type of action: Statistics and researchTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should investigate the causes of suicidal tendencies, particularly among transgender children and children in migration reception centres, and ensure that measures are …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should improve the diagnosis of mental health problems among children and ensure that any initial diagnosis of ADHD is reassessed, that appropriate …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: ResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that municipalities are allocated sufficient funds for health services for children, on the basis of the individual needs of the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that reception facilities for child victims of violence and sexual abuse have a clearly defined organizational structure in order to …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should provide children who have irregular residence status with immediate access to health-care institutions so that they can receive the necessary treatment, …

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should incorporate the principle of the best interests of the child into all legislation and judicial and administrative decision-making procedures affecting children, …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should take measures to guarantee the right of children with disabilities to be cared for by their parents, in alternative care within …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Local Government and Modernisation
  The State party should take all children with disabilities into account in legislation, policies and measures under the principle of equal opportunity and community inclusion, …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesConsultationTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and ModernisationMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should promote comprehensive strategies and accessible mechanisms for the full and effective participation of children with disabilities in decision-making processes affecting their …

Recommended measures (6)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should further increase its efforts to combat violence against and abuse and neglect of children with disabilities, including through research on the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that all cases of violence, including sexual violence, against children with disabilities, are systematically registered by the authorities, and that …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should further strengthen efforts to prevent institutionalization and eliminate the possibility of institutionalization without the consent of the child and/or the child’s …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure, in the light of the outcome of the report of 1 April 2018 on inclusive education by the expert group …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure that inclusion is given priority over placement in special education institutions or classes, increase the training and assignment of specialized …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should further increase the support provided to parents of children with disabilities and remove obstacles to accessing support, which, reportedly, affect in …