Open-Ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Provide a Communications Procedure

A/HRC/RES/11/1View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2009–2010

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/13/3

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2010	A/HRC/RES/13/3	Open-ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Provide a Communications Procedure	728	22%Compare
2009	A/HRC/RES/11/1	Open-ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Provide a Communications Procedure	610	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Communications Procedures Rights of the Child Treaties Working Groups

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Decides to establish an open-ended working group of the Human Rights Council to explore the possibility of elaborating an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure complementary to the reporting procedure under the Convention;

Also decides that the working group shall hold its first session for five working days in Geneva before the end of 2009, within existing resources;

Further decides to invite a representative of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to attend the session of the working group as a resource person and, where appropriate, relevant United Nations special procedures and other relevant independent experts, and also invites them to submit inputs to the working group for its consideration;

Requests the working group to submit a report on progress made to the Council for consideration at its thirteenth session.

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