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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
Day of General Discussion: "Children’s Rights and Alternative Care" 16 - 17 September 2021, CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (deadline 14 June 2021)
New individual complaints form and guidance noteForm (Word): English | Français | русский | Español Guidance (Word): English | Français | русский | Español
General Comment No. 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
Children Deprived of Liberty - The United Nations Global Study
CRC COVID-19 Statement
Revised "Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2019) on harmful practices"
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Fact Sheet No.10
18 Candles: The Convention on the Rights of the Child Reaches Majority
Special Rapporteur on sale of childrenSRSG for children and armed conflict SRSG on Violence against ChildrenStudy on Violence Against ChildrenStudy on Children deprived of libertyUNICEFUN Special Session on Children
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Child-friendly Convention
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African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Institut International des droits de l'enfant
Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Luxembourg Guidelines)
Explanatory Report to the Guidelines regarding the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
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