[Pdf-women] Convention on the Rights of the Child 30th Anniversary - Progress But Continuing Challenges, Especially for Girls

[Soloveni Vitoso]

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRC30.aspx



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This 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, creates a momentum for the international community to step up its efforts to make children thrive, and to renew their commitment to protect and promote all their human rights. While notable progress has been achieved in the past three decades, significant challenges remain, in particular for girls, children with disabilities and children in disadvantaged and vulnerable situations.



UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

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UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/CRCIntro.aspx



[image: Students in Karachi, Pakistan. (UN Photo #153528)]
Students in Karachi, Pakistan
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The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of 18 Independent experts<https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/Membership.aspx> that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child<https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx> by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict<https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/OPACCRC.aspx> (OPAC) and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (OPSC)<https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/OPSCCRC.aspx>. On 19 December 2011, the UN General Assembly approved a third Optional Protocol on a communications procedure (OPIC)<http://treaties.un.org/doc/source/signature/2012/CTC_4-11d.pdf>, which 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.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must submit an initial report<http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC/C/5&Lang=en> two years after acceding to the Convention and then periodic reports<http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?key=92g0+9FnI5fX/ePqHxWObMdE63qlOjiuLKDV/BafkP+XV86EGNR9fgW9SFw/mAZV&Lang=en> every five years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding observations".

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