One of the primary challenges over the next 20 years is fostering meaningful engagement by children in the process of reporting on and monitoring the Convention's implementation.
While a number of practical considerations – including time, money and political will – certainly hamper the Convention's implementation and the establishment of new monitoring mechanisms, the world community cannot shirk its responsibility to protect children.
As we near the 25th Anniversary of the CRC and look forward to a post-2015 world, it is an opportune time to reflect on the successes and challenges of the Convention's implementation.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, an internationally elected body of independent experts that sits in Geneva to monitor the Convention's implementation, requires governments that have ratified the Convention to submit regular reports on the status of children's rights in their countries.
India, like many nations, is a signatory to these conventions, but implementation is poor, because of factors such as corruption, lack of capacity and expertise and cultural norms, attitudes and stigmas.
Usage of these media alone to spread awareness about the principles and provisions of the Convention could spur implementation of childrens rights.
These visits would not serve as official fact-finding missions; rather, they would give children first-hand information about the process of reporting and monitoring and would also clarify their role in that process, in addition to exposing them more directly to the Convention and its implementation.
Welcoming him home after more than 40 years as an advocate and then a judge in Strasbourg, the retired appeal judge Sir Stephen Sedley said Bratza had recognised that the court should not be "micro-managing the implementation of convention rights" in member states.
The relevant U.S. legislation is the 1983 Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CCPIA, or CPIA), which allows the U.S. government to respond to requests from other states party to the UNESCO convention to impose import restrictions on certain classes of archaeological or ethnographic material.
The fist study to assess the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) implementation in Armenia.
