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The Committee on the Rights of the Child found Paraguay responsible for grave violations in the 2020 killings of two 11-year-old girls. This inquiry, its second ever, underscores the right to life as non-derogable and affirms that grave individual violations alone can trigger inquiry procedures.
Inquiry concerning Paraguay conducted under article 13 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
Rafael Silva Niño de Zepeda • 17 January 2025
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