Committee on the Rights of the Child

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The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by governments that ratify the Convention. The Committee also monitors implementation of the optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

The CRC is one of the seven UN-linked human rights treaty bodies.

Governments that have ratified the Convention (i.e., all UN member states except Somalia and the United States) must submit regular, detailed reports on the national situation of children's rights to the Committee for examination. The Committee examines each report and raises concerns or makes recommendations to the State party.

The Committee cannot consider individual complaints, although child rights may be raised before other committees with competence to consider individual complaints.^{[citation needed]} However, at least the case of Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama, was considered by the Committee May 28, 1996, as well as at other later dates.^[1]

The Committee is made up of 18 members from different countries and legal systems who are of 'high moral standing' and experts in the field of human rights. Although members are nominated and elected by the governments, Committee members act in a personal capacity. They do not represent their countries' governments or any other organization to which they might belong. Members are elected to a four-year term and can be re-elected if nominated.

The current members of the Committee (as of March 2007) are:

• Agnes Akosua Aidoo (Term ends 2011)
• Ghalia Mohd. Bin Hamad Al-Thani (2009)
• Joyce Aluoch (2009)
• Luigi Citarella (2011)
• Kamel Filali (2011)
• Maria Herczog, (2011)
• Moushira Khattab (2011)
• Hatem Kotrane (2011)
• Lothar Friedrich Krappmann (2011)
• Yanghee Lee (2009)
• Rosa María Ortiz, (2011)
• David Brent Parfitt (2009)
• Awich Pollar (2009)
• Dainius Puras (2011)
• Kamal Siddiqui (2009)
• Lucy Smith (2009)
• Nevena Vuckovic-Sahovic (2009)
• Jean Zermatten (2009)

References

1. ^ Gedhun Choekyi Nyima: the XIth Panchen Lama of Tibet website of TCHRD

See also

• Child helpline international

External links

• Committee on the Rights of the Child at OHCHR website
• Members of the CRC

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