This toolkit presents the benefits of ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (OPIC-CRC), answers questions about its content and application, and provides a simplified version of the Protocol's provisions.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of the United Kingdom, with Committee Experts noting progress in addressing...

GENEVA (19 May 2023) – UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, will conduct an official visit to Colombia from 22 to 30 May 2023. Mullally...

GENEVA (19 May 2023) – UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Morris Tidball-Binz will visit Honduras at the invitation of the Government from 22 May to 2 June 2023...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, examines the practical gaps in accountability for serious...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its consideration of the ninth periodic report of Venezuela, with Committee Experts commending the State on the high...

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fourth and fifth periodic report of Türkiye, with Committee Experts praising the State’s free child...

LIMA (18 May 2023) – The Government of Peru must ensure those responsible for killing and injuring protestors during a recent wave of historic demonstrations in the country are brought to justice, a...

The Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, visited Costa Rica from 21 February to 2 March 2022, pursuant to his mandate contained in Human Rights Council resolution 44/11. The main purpose of the visit was to learn and understand how the country incorporates human rights in its international solidarity strategy and action and to collect good practices in this regard, and to identify any areas for improvement.

The present report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, contains the findings from his visit to Belarus, which took place from 16 to 20 July 2022. During...