Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure

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The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure is an international human rights treaty that allows children or their representatives to bring individual complaints about violations of their rights under the Convention and its other Optional Protocols before a UN committee.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf United Nations treaty
international human rights treaty
optional protocol
adoptedBy United Nations General Assembly
adoptionDate 2011-12-19
allowsComplaintsBy children
groups of children
representatives of children
appliesTo Convention on the Rights of the Child
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
articleFocus admissibility criteria for communications
follow-up to views of the Committee
friendly settlement of communications
interim measures
basedOn Convention on the Rights of the Child
belongsToCategory UN human rights treaty body procedures
conditionForComplaints State must be party to the Protocol
alleged violation must concern a treaty to which the State is party
entryIntoForce 2014-04-14
establishesProcedureFor individual communications
inquiry procedure
inter-State communications
language Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
legalStatus in force
monitoringBody Committee on the Rights of the Child
openedForSignature 2012-02-28
partOf international human rights law
placeOfAdoption New York City NERFINISHED
United States
purpose to provide a communications procedure for violations of children’s rights
to strengthen enforcement of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
relatedField child rights protection mechanisms
relatesTo Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
requires exhaustion of domestic remedies
requiresActionBy States parties
shortName OP3-CRC
OPIC
subjectMatter individual communications procedure
international complaints mechanism
rights of the child
treatyOf United Nations
typeOfMechanism treaty-based complaints mechanism

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
CRC ("Optional Protocol on a communications procedure")
hasOptionalProtocol
Committee on the Rights of the Child
monitorsImplementationOf
Convention on the Rights of the Child
relatedInstrument

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