A 2002 UN optional protocol raised the minimum age for recruiting soldiers from 15 to 18.
The two agreements Mr. Clinton signed are formally known as the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.
Our core aim continues to be to encourage states to sign, ratify and implement the UN Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol.
The group began pursuing an inquiry using Article 6 of the Optional Protocol within the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the beginning of 2012.
Triggs said Australia should, as a matter of priority, ratify the optional protocol to the convention against torture, known as Opcat.
A majority of members of the human rights council called on Australia to ratify the optional protocol to the convention against torture (Opcat).
Mr Ellwood replied that the government of Bahrain "has previously committed to consider ratifying the optional protocol of the Convention Against Torture" which the UK "strongly" supports.
Earlier this year, after a decade of negotiations, an optional protocol to the 1984 convention against torture was approved by the UN's human-rights commission.
Over two-thirds of the states adhering to the Covenant have ratified this optional protocol.
Provisions for such smuggling are being handled in a separate and optional protocol that countries would sign in addition to the treaty.
The Optional Protocol is a subsidiary agreement to the Convention.
