Children's Rights: Comments to Australian Government on Draft 3rd Optional Protocol to Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Australian Government is currently considering a draft text of a third optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which has been circulated by the UN Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The draft third OP seeks to establish an individual communications (complaints) mechanism in relation to the CRC, together with an inquiry and inter-state complaints procedure. On 9 November 2010, the Australian Government invited stakeholders for input on Australia's approach to the draft optional protocol.
On 11 November 2010, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre made an Initial Submission to the Australian Government on the Elaboration and Adoption of a Third Optional Protocol to the CRC.