Ms. Vanessa Sedletzki (UNICEF)

Ms. Vanessa Sedletzki (UNICEF)

Submitted by Elizabeth Karawa, Josevata Karawa, Vanessa Karawa (represented by counsel, Anne O'Donoghue)

Doing so would not affect Vanessa's Australian citizenship.

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The State disputes that Vanessa relocating to Fiji would not be in accordance with the provisions, aims and objectives of the Covenant.

It would also be unreasonable, in their view, to expect Vanessa to remain in Australia while the parents are removed.

Vanessa is afforded the same measures of protection as other Australian children, aimed at ensuring their health, safety and well being.

In his view, Vanessa remaining alone in Australia is hard to imagine and would be emotionally and psychologically catastrophic .

If Vanessa remains in Australia, she will continue to enjoy this protection, with or without her parents.

In their view, to have Vanessa remain in Australia is not an option, while they do not feel they can take her to Fiji with them.

The authors point out that Vanessa is an above average student, has neither Fijian friends nor any desire to live there.

They explain that the only means by which separation may be avoided would be for Vanessa to leave with them and relocate to Fiji.

Vanessa is thus left with the choice of leaving Australia with her parents or remaining without them.

The authors' claim that the State party has not provided Vanessa with the required measures of protection is therefore without any merit.

On 12 August 2002, Vanessa Karawa wrote to the Ministers and, citing provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, requested that her parents be permitted to remain.

They bring the communication on their own behalf and on behalf of their daughter Vanessa Karawa, an Australian national at the time the communication was submitted, who was born in Australia on 24 February 1989.

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They argue that if Vanessa returns to Fiji, she will be isolated and stigmatized in their home village, as a result of an earlier failed marriage of her mother.

In the present case, removal of the parents will not have this effect the entire family, including Vanessa, are free and have the right to leave Australia and enter Fiji.

5.2 On the merits, the authors argue that Vanessa, aged 14 and an Australian citizen since the age of 10, has lived all her life and undertaken all her schooling in Australia.

According to the psychiatrist, Vanessa is very close to her parents, and, while proud of her Fijian background, does not identify strongly with Fijian society .

Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), under agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin)

Finally, as Vanessa can obtain Fijian citizenship by registration (while retaining Australian citizenship), all three family members can live in a country of which they are nationals.

Facilitator, Mr. Thomas Gass (Switzerland), under agenda item 52 (report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty third session)

In their view, this would not be in accordance with the provisions, aims or objectives of the Covenant, nor be reasonable in the circumstances, as Vanessa is fully integrated into Australian society, has never been to Fiji and has no cultural ties to that country.

Also at the same meeting, the Committee heard the following petitioners Julian Aguon on behalf of Trini Torres, Debtralynne K. Quinata, Vanessa Ramos, Helen Hardin (on behalf of Zach Wamp), Antonio López Ortiz, María Inés Miranda Navarro, Rosa María Ostogain Etxeberria and Justin Knapp (see A C.4 60 SR.3).

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution on agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held today, 22 November 2005, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room E.

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution on agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held on Wednesday, 23 November 2005, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room E.

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution, under agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held today, 16 November 2005, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in Conference Room B.

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution, under agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held on Thursday, 17 November 2005, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room B.

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution on agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held today, 1 December 2005, from 3 to 6 p.m. in Conference Room C 209B.

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution under agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held today, 30 November 2005, from 3 to 6 p.m. in Conference Room 3.

Informal informal consultations, convened by the Facilitator, Ms. Vanessa Gomes (Portugal), on the draft resolution under agenda item 54 (d) (Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin), will be held on Thursday, 1 December 2005, from 3 to 6 p.m. in Conference Room C 209B.

10.15 a.m. H.E. Ms. Maria Mutagamba, Minister of State for Water of Uganda and Chair of the African Minister's Council on Water H.E. Ms. Hilde F. Johnson, Minister for International Development of Norway and Ms. Vanessa Tobin, Chief for Water, Environment and Sanitation, UNICEF (on a round table discussion which will be held at UNICEF House today, 14 September, on the theme Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa with a gender perspective )

While conceding that it is reasonably common for children to relocate with their parents, the authors argue that in Vanessa's case such relocation would be forced on her as an Australian citizen, by the pernicious operation of two Australian statutes, as well as by her youth and familial ties. The application of Australian law to this case is thus said to be arbitrary, and to fall factually into the exceptional circumstances identified in Winata.