complaints to an international body about violations of their
rights.
- What is the significance of the treaty?
The treaty (the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure) will, for the first time, allow children to complain directly to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about an alleged violation of their rights. This is significant, as before the Optional Protocol came into force, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was the only core international human rights treaty that did not have a mechanism for receiving individual complaints (called "communications").
The new protocol enables children and their representatives to submit complaints about alleged violations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as under its two Optional Protocols (on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child pornography and child prostitution). The Optional Protocol came into effect last month following ratification by the required 10 countries: Albania, Bolivia, Gabon, Germany, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Slovakia and Costa Rica.
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