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The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the 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 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children. ... The Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict is a protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by General Assembly of the United Nations on 25 May 2000 (resolution A/RES/54/263). ... The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography is relevant to the articles on child labour and especially the worst forms of child labour. ...
Governments that ratify the Convention (ie. all countries but Somalia and USA) must submit regular, detailed reports on the national situation of children's rights to the Committee for examination.
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 they 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. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
It is monitored by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The Convention acknowledges that every child has certain basic rights, including the right to life, his or her own name and identity, to be raised by his or her parents within a family or cultural grouping and have a relationship with both parents, even if they are separated.
The Convention also acknowledges that children have the right to express their opinions and to have those opinions heard and acted upon when appropriate, to be protected from abuse or exploitation, to have their privacy protected and requires that their lives not be subject to excessive interference.
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