Convention on the Rights of the Child

Background Information

Official documents available on-line

Reference documents:
		Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
		Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OP-AC)
		Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (CRC-OP-SC)
Canada’s Third and Fourth Reports on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, submitted to the UN on November 20, 2009
		Canadian documents: HTML Version | PDF Version
Canada's First Report on Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Submitted to the UN on February 3, 2009
		Canadian documents: HTML Version | PDF Version
Review of Canada's First Report on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.  June 9, 2006
		Canadian documents: Canada's response to Committee's questions HTML Version | PDF Version
		Documents from the UN Committee Concluding Observations
Canada's First Report on Optional Protocol on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict Submitted to the UN on September 16, 2004
		Canadian documents: HTML Version | PDF Version
Review of Canada's Second Report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. September 17, 2003
		Concluding Observations of the UN Committee (PDF) Canadian documents: General information Speech Canada's response to Committee's questions
Canada's Second Report. Submitted to the UN on April 26, 2001
		Canada's Second Report

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