ТРЕЋИ ФАКУЛТАТИВНИ ПРОТОКОЛ УЗ КОНВЕНЦИЈУ О ПРАВИМА ДЕТЕТА
Third Optional Protocol to Convention of Children Rights

Summary/Abstract: The Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 19th, 2011. It is of procedural nature, for it introduces the possibility of filing individual and inter-state communications before the Committee on the Rights of the Child. In addition to this, the Committee has the competence of initiating investigations ex officio in the case of grave and systematic violations of the rights guaranteed by both the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols. The issue of international assistance and cooperation is also regulated, but no significant changes from the solution of the Convention were made. Despite the initial draft, collective communications were not included in the final text of the Protocol. The adoption of the Third Optional Protocol is the final step in completing the universal system of protection of human rights, since the last of the committees, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, has received powers already existent in other committees. However, it still remains to be seen whether the international campaign of collecting a sufficient number of instruments of ratification or accession for its entering into force, will be worthwhile.

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