The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as two optional protocols to the Convention, on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The Convention was adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly Resolution 44/25 on 20 November 1989. The optional protocols were adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly Resolution 54/263 on 25 May 2000. For more information, see OHCHR.
Further reading
Click here to access reports by the NGO Group for the CRC on individual State examinations by the CRC.
Click here to access OHCHR website on the CRC.
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