The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of Morocco on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Introducing the…

Hears Statement by Chief of Treaties and Commission Branch of Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its forty-first session by hearing an address by Maria Francisca Ize-Charrin, Chief of the Treaties and Commission Branch of the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial report of Switzerland on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on children and armed conflict. In opening remarks to the Committee, Jean-Daniel Vigny…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of Bangladesh on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Introducing the report was Mahbud…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Program, the…