monitor and evaluate the activities of provincial and city offices regarding the implementation of
this law in the Judiciary. It remains unclear whether information gathered by this institution,
specifically related to cases of children not receiving support from the State (preferably
disaggregated by age, ethnicity, nationality, race and gender), is utilized to calculate the budgetary
needs of children.
B. Allocate adequate budgetary resources for the implementation of children’s rights,
and in particular, increase the budget allocated to social sectors and address
disparities on the basis of indicators related to children’s rights.
Every year when Iran’s budget bill is published, prominent experts have discussed budgetary
deficiencies or cuts concerning children. There are no additional details demonstrating what
programs or budget lines were initially proposed by relevant agencies, or at what point, by whom,
or why these programs, or budget lines, were cut from the final national budget. In practice, the
Iranian government has not adjusted its budgeting approach to prioritize the funding of children’s’
rights related programs and policies.6
Furthermore, details on the appropriation of existing State funds remains limited. Consequently, it
is difficult to evaluate if existing programs have provided an adequate budget for implementing
children’s rights, particularly in the social sectors (including provision of necessary support for the
child and for those with care of the child) or if disparities, based on indicators for children’s rights,
have been addressed.
In 2009, the Iranian government established the "National Body on the Convention on the Rights
of the Child”, within the Ministry of Justice. This body is tasked with establishing coordination
between different public institutions in order to implement recommendations on children's rights.7
Yet, due to lack of publicly available information, the performance of this institution cannot be
evaluated.
Recommendation Status:
This recommendation has NOT been implemented.
6
The head of the Iranian Social Welfare Association announced: "Worrying reduction of children's budget in 1399", Quds
Newspaper: http://www.qudsonline.ir/news/692588/; Experts stated: "Children, forgotten in the law and budget of 2019 / The need
for social protection of children", Iqna News Agency: https://iqna.ir/fa/news/3794908/
7
The National Body on the Convention on the Rights of the Child: https://www.justice.ir/en
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