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). Its full name is the Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and came into force on 12 February 2002. The military use of children refers to children being placed in harms way in military actions, the desire being to protect a location or provide propaganda. ... 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 term general assembly can refer to The largest unit of organisation in the polity of a (national) Presbyterian church, containing several synods or presbyteries. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• The full text of this convention (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/protocolchild.htm&e=10313)
• List of ratifications (http://www.unhchr.ch/pdf/report.pdf)