Ethiopia's Candidate Re-Elected to UN Committee On Rights of Child

Addis Ababa, — Ethiopia's candidate, Professor Benyam Dawit, has been re-elected to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 20th Meeting of the State Parties held today in New York, according to Foreign Affairs Ministry.

The Committee is the body of 18 independent experts that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and monitors implementation of the Optional Protocols to the Convention.

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