Reform of the Committee on the Rights of the Child under the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Abstract

One of the agreements belonging to the United Nations Treaty on human rights is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on November 20, 1989. It is a fundamental document of the international protection of the rights of the child. On this basis, an organ was created to ensure the observance of the right in the Convention – the Committee on the Rights of the Child. In the later years three Optional Protocols were adopted. The first two concern substantive law – the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of child prostitution and child pornography of 25 May 2010. The Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure of 19 December 2011 introduces the reform of the Committee on the Rights of the Child through the procedure of individual and interstate notifications. This article focuses on the analysis of the changes and attempts to assess their practical application.