Summary:

These guidelines inform States on how to provide information on the measures adopted by the State Party to give effect to the rights set forth in the Optional Protocol and on the progress made in the enjoyment of those rights.

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To read the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, A/RES/54/263, adopted 25 May 2000, entered into force on 12 February 2002, go to http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/protocolchild.htm

Previous CRC - Basic Reference Document items

• 28/09/2001: Documents submitted for the Day of General Discussion (28 September 2001) on Violence in the Family and in Schools
• 22/08/2001: Draft Programme of Action of the World Conference Against Racism
• 20/08/2001: Draft Declaration of the World Conference Against Racism
• 21/05/2001: Racial Discrimination, Religious Intolerance and Education: Report prepared by Abdeffatah Amor, UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerence
• 14/02/2001: UNCRC contribution to the preparatory process for the WCAR

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