Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Review of Somalia

We write in advance of the 90th session of the Committee on Rights of the Child regarding Somalia’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This submission includes information on teenage pregnancy and child marriage, sexual violence against girls, airstrikes killing and maiming children, detention of children, the recruitment of child soldiers, and protecting education from attack during armed conflict.

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