Recommendation 34

United Nations human rights recommendations database

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the CRC on communications procedures (OP-CRC-IC)
State

Italy

Issue
International human rights treaty action
Population group
Children
Australian Government Agency and/or Jurisdiction

• Attorney-General’s Department
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Australia's Response
Notes (will not consider further at this time)
Australia's Position

The Australian Government is not considering becoming a party to the Optional Protocol at this time. As a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and its first two Optional Protocols, Australia already has obligations to comply with the provisions of the CRC, and reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on its implementation.

Children are able to bring communications under the complaints mechanisms to which Australia is a party – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.