22/30 Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 19/37 on the rights of the child - Note by the secretariat

GE.12-18759

Human Rights Council Twenty-second session

Agenda items 2 and 3

Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner

for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the

High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 19/37 on the rights of the child

Note by the secretariat

1. The present note is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 19/37,

in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Council, at its

twenty-second session, a report on the rights of the child, with information on the status of

the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

2. The secretariat has the honour to refer the Human Rights Council to the report of the

Secretary-General on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child submitted to

the General Assembly (A/67/225). No new ratifications of the Convention have been

registered since the submission of that report. As at 1 December 2012, there were 150

States parties to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and

161 States parties to the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and

child pornography.

3. The list of States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the

Optional Protocols thereto is publicly available on the treaty body webpage of the Office of

the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

(http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm).