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.

More about the Committee on the Rights of the Child…

Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Click on the image to access the interactive map
See 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

HTMLCountry4 Upcoming Events Call for comments: Draft Revision of General Comment No. 10 (2007) on Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice Accreditation/Registration 80th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child – 14 January to 1 February 2019 (Please make sure that you are using one of the following browsers to register: Google Chrome, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Edge or Opera) Children Deprived of Liberty – The United Nations Global Study	HTMLCountry5 Recent Events and Developments Informe de la investigación del Comité de los Derechos del Niño relacionada en Chile, relativo a un procedimiento de comunicaciones CRC 79th Session, Palais Wilson, Groundfloor Conference Room, 17 September - 5 October 2018 Day of General Discussion: "Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders" , 28 September 2018 - 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Room XVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva 17th Meeting of States parties to the Convention - Elections 2018 CRC adopts decisions on two individual cases (1-2) Launching event of CMW-CRC Joint General Comments on the Human Rights of Children in the Context of International Migration, 18 December 2017, New York CMW and CRC adopt joint general comments on the human rights of children in the context of international migration CMW/C/GC/3-CRC/C/GC/22 CMW/C/GC/4-CRC/C/GC/23 General comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations Outcome Report of the DGD and Recommendations Word - PDF Twitter:Statement: UN #ChildRights experts on deaths of 21 girls last night in protest against alleged abuse at crowded #Guatemala child shelter General comment No. 20 (2016) on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (A/71/413) Joint open letter of the Rapporteur and other experts with occasion of UNGA Special session on world drug problem, April 2016
HTMLCountry6 Latest News UN experts call on Saudi Arabia to halt death sentences on children 29 October 2018 Separating children from undocumented migrant parents is shocking, inhumane and has dire effects on the children 19 October 2018 UN Child Rights Committee issues findings on Benin, El Salvador, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mauritania, Niger and Saudi Arabia 11 October 2018 Committee on the Rights of the Child closes seventy-ninth session 5 October 2018 Committee on the Rights of the Child considers Saudi Arabia's implementation of the Optional Protocols on the sale of children and on children in armed conflict 1 October 2018	HTMLCountry7 Ratifications and Reporting Status of ratification by treaty and by country Declarations and reservations World Maps on Ratifications Reporting status by country