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The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. On 19 December 2011, the UN General Assembly approved a third Optional Protocol on a communications procedure, which will allow individual children to submit complaints regarding specific violations of their rights under the Convention and its first two optional protocols. The Protocol entered into force in April 2014.
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Click on the image to access the interactive mapSee the map on ratifications (PDF) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or its three Optional Protocols: on the involvement of children in armed conflict; on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; and on a communications procedure
74th session, Geneva, 16 January - 3 February 2017 Changes to the Programme of Work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Draft General Comment on children in street situations
Joint General Comment on the Human Rights of Children in the Context of International Migration
General comment No. 20 (2016) on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence
Video of the Statement by Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the 71st Session of the General Assembly (Third Committee - 13th meeting), New York, 13 October 2016
Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (A/71/413)
73rd session, Geneva, 13 - 30 September 2016
Joint open letter of the Rapporteur and other experts with occasion of UNGA Special session on world drug problem, April 2016
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Fact Sheet No.10
18 Candles: The Convention on the Rights of the Child Reaches Majority
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Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Luxembourg Guidelines)
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