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Logo the UNCRC. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. [4]
It also issues occasional general comments on the interpretation of particular Convention obligations. Once a year, the committee submits a report to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which also hears a statement from the CRC Chair, and the Assembly adopts a Resolution on the Rights of the Child. [7] [8]
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC), also known as the child soldier treaty, is a multilateral treaty whereby states agree to: 1) prohibit the conscription into the military of children under the age of 18; 2) ensure that military recruits are no younger than 16; and 3) prevent recruits aged 16 or 17 from ...
She chaired the UNCRC's working group on communications from 2021 to 2023. [32] She was the head of the UNCRC complaints procedure in October 2021, when the UNCRC made its historic response to a complaint from young climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Ayakha Melithafa ; the committee held that states could be held responsible for the ...
The Protocol requires parties to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Article 2 defines the prohibition: Sale of children – Any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration.
The series is critical of opposition to the UNCRC, and it champions youth voice in a new way, as described in Article 12 of the Convention. The UN General Assembly adopted the Convention and opened it for signature on 20 November 1989 (the 30th anniversary of its Declaration of the Rights of the Child). This was one of the final projects ...
The Protocol was adopted by the United Nations' General Assembly on 19 December 2011 and entered into force on 14 April 2014, following ratification by 10 states. As of December 2023, the Protocol has been signed by 53 states and ratified or acceded by 52 states.