GENEVA
RTE News
The Vatican is being questioned by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) over how it handled allegations of child sexual abuse committed by priests.
The six-hour meeting at the Palais Wilson in Geneva is the first time the Holy See has been publicly questioned by an international panel over the child abuse scandal.
The UN panel will assess the church’s adherence to the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The treaty guarantees a full range of human rights for children and was signed by the Holy See.
Alleged victims of abuse at the hands of Catholic priests are among those in attendance at the event, including representatives from the Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).
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