The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. On 19 December 2011, the UN General Assembly approved a third Optional Protocol on a communications procedure, which will allow individual children to submit complaints regarding specific violations of their rights under the Convention and its first two optional protocols. The Protocol entered into force in April 2014.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its 75th session (15-May – 2 June 2017) in which it will be reviewing the States` reports on CRC implementation of Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Cameroon, Lebanon, Mongolia, Qatar and Romania, as well as implementation of Optional Protocols to the CRC (including of United States of America).
The public meetings will be webcast live by the UN Office of Geneva.
According to the following schedule (all GVA time):
Tuesday, 16 May
10h00 - United States of America (Optional Protocol on sale of children)
15h00 - United States of America (Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict)
Wednesday, 17 May
10h00 - Bhutan
15h00 - Bhutan
Thursday, 18 May
10h00 - Bhutan (Optional Protocol on sale of children and Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict)
15h00 - Lebanon
Friday, 19 May
10h00 – Lebanon
Monday, 22 May
15h00 - Qatar
Tuesday, 23 May
10h00 - Qatar
15h00 - Romania
Wednesday, 24 May
10h00 - Romania
Friday, 26 May
10h00 - Mongolia
15h00 - Mongolia
Monday, 29 May
10h00 - Antigua and Barbuda
15h00 - Antigua and Barbuda
Tuesday, 30 May
10h00 - Cameroon
15h00 - Cameroon
Friday, 2 June
17h00 - Closing of Session