Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figure, Appendices
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors' Preface
- Table of Treaties
- Table of Cases
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The UN human rights treaty system: A system in crisis?
- A The UN human rights monitoring system in action
- 2 Individual claims in a world of massive violations: What role for the Human Rights Committee?
- 3 Decision-taking in the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- 4 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at the crossroads
- 5 The reporting process under the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 6 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Catalyst for change in a system needing reform
- 7 Country-oriented procedures under the Convention against Torture: Towards a new dynamism
- 8 UN human rights reporting procedures: An NGO perspective
- B National influences and responses
- C Regional and sectoral comparisons
- D Common challenges for the treaty bodies
- E Looking to the future
- Index
5 - The reporting process under the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figure, Appendices
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors' Preface
- Table of Treaties
- Table of Cases
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The UN human rights treaty system: A system in crisis?
- A The UN human rights monitoring system in action
- 2 Individual claims in a world of massive violations: What role for the Human Rights Committee?
- 3 Decision-taking in the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- 4 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at the crossroads
- 5 The reporting process under the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- 6 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Catalyst for change in a system needing reform
- 7 Country-oriented procedures under the Convention against Torture: Towards a new dynamism
- 8 UN human rights reporting procedures: An NGO perspective
- B National influences and responses
- C Regional and sectoral comparisons
- D Common challenges for the treaty bodies
- E Looking to the future
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted by the UN General Assembly in November 1989. It entered into force in September 1990 and by December 1999 had been ratified by 191 states. Only the United States of America and Somalia have as yet failed to ratify it. As such it has achieved the unprecedented record of becoming a virtually universally accepted human rights treaty within only eight years of its adoption. The CRC establishes an international monitoring mechanism through the creation of the ten-member CRC Committee, elected by states parties. The Committee held its first meeting in 1991, and began its first scrutiny of states parties' reports in 1993. The CRC requires that the Committee meet annually. However, following a request of the Committee in 1994, made in view of the volume of work associated with the number of ratifications, it has since 1995 met three times a year. Each session comprises a three-week period for scrutiny of states parties' reports with an additional week at each session for the pre-sessional working group.
The CRC imposes on states parties an obligation to report to the Committee initially two years after ratification and subsequently every five years. The reporting obligation is contained in article 44, which also requires states parties to make these reports widely available in their own countries. The purpose of the reports is to provide the Committee with sufficient information to allow it to develop a comprehensive understanding of the implementation of the CRC in every state party.
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- The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring , pp. 113 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000
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