Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Presentation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
The International Convention on the Rights of the Child is a treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989.
What is the Convention on the rights of the child ?
- The meaning of the child and the rights of the children
- Definition of the Convention
- Issues of the Convention
- The Guiding Principles of the Child’s Rights Convention
The Convention: texts
History of the Convention
- Children’s rights history
- The beginnings of the Convention
- Adoption of the Convention, 20 november 1989
- Signatory States and Parties to the Convention
The Committee on the rights of the child
- The Committee: what it is and how it works
- Committee’s role and competences
- Committee’s general observations
- Committee’s limits
Optional Protocols to the Child’s Rights Convention
- Optional Protocol to the Convention relating to the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, 2000
- Optional Protocol to the Child’s Rights Convention, concerning the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 2000
- Optional Protocol to the Child’s Rights Convention regarding the complaints procedure before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2011.
