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United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

UNCROC is formally monitored by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights set out in UNCROC are being implemented.

States must report to the committee initially two years after ratifying the Convention and then every five years after that.

The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding observations."

The Committee also reviews additional reports from countries that have ratified the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict.

The Committee cannot consider individual complaints, although child rights issues may be raised before other committees with competence to consider individual complaints.

The Committee meets in Geneva and normally holds three sessions per year, consisting of a three-week plenary and a one-week pre-sessional working group.

To view country reports from around the world and the UN concluding observations relating to them, refer to the external link to the United Nations treaty body site at the bottom of this page.

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