Committee on the Rights of the Child
Monitoring children's rights
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All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially two years after acceding to the Convention and then every five years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of “concluding observations”.
The Committee reviews additional reports which must be submitted by States who have acceded to the two Optional Protocols to the Convention.
The Committee cannot consider individual complaints, although child rights may be raised before other committees with competence to consider
individual complaints.
The Committee meets in Geneva and normally holds three
sessions per year consisting of a three-week plenary and a one-week pre-sessional working group. In 2006, the Committee considered reports in two parallel chambers of 9 members each, "as an exceptional and temporary measure", in order to clear the backlog of reports.
For more information about the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, click
here.
New Publication 18 Candles The Convention on the Rights of the Child Reaches Majority
This booklet is a present offered to Miss Convention on the occasion of the attainment of her age of majority. It is also as a tribute to all persons who have worked and are continuing to strive to enforce children’s rights. It is offered by: Institut international des droits de l’enfant and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. |
New Publication
Now available in PDF
Compilación de observaciones finales del Comité de los Derechos del Niño sobre países de América Latina y el Caribe (1993-2006)
A compilation of CRC concluding observations for Latin American and Caribbean countries in their original languages. Contains all of the concluding observations of the Committee from 1993 to 2006 relating to Spanish-speaking countries in Spanish, English-speaking countries (as well as Brazil) in English, and Francophone countries in French.
Published by OHCHR Regional Office, Santiago, Chile and UNICEF-TACRO, (Regional Office for LAC), Panama.
ISBN: 956-299-397-3