CRC/C/77/D/3/2016 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Advance unedited version Distr.: General* 25 January 2018 Original: English Committee on the Rights of the Child Views adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure in respect of communcation No. 3/2016*,** Submitted by: I.A.M. (represented by counsel, Mr. N. E. Hansen) Alleged victim: K.Y.M. State party: Denmark Date of communication: 12 February 2016 Date of adoption of Views: 25 January 2018 Subject matter: Deportation of girl to Somalia, where she would face an alleged risk of being forcefully subjected to female genital mutilation Procedural issues: Substantiation of claims Substantive issues: Prohibition of discrimination, best interests of the child, protection of the child against all forms of violence or ill treatment Articles of the Convention: 1, 2, 3, and 19 Articles of the Optional Protocol: 7 (f) * Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-seventh period of sessions (15 January to 2 February 2018). ** The following Committee members took part in the consideration of the present communication: Suzanne Aho Assouma, Amal Salman Aldoseri, Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi, Jorge Cardona Llorens, Bernard Gastaud, Olga A. Khazova, Hatem Kotrane, Cephas Lumina, Gehad Madi, Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Clarence Nelson, Mikiko Otani, Luis Pedernera, José Ángel Rodríguez Reyes, Kirsten Sandberg, Ann Skelton, Velina Todorova and Renate Winter. GE.17-21181(E) 

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