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STATUS AS AT : 19-05-2013 05:11:28 EDT

CHAPTER IV

HUMAN RIGHTS

11 .d Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure

New York, 19 December 2011

Not yet in force

in accordance with article 19(1) which reads as follows: "The present Protocol shall enter into force three months after the deposit of the tenth instrument of ratification or accession.".

Status

Signatories : 36. Parties : 4

Text

A/RES/66/138

Note

The above Protocol, which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations by resolution 66/138 of 19 December 2011, opened for signature in Geneva, Switzerland, on 28 February 2012 and remains open for signature thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Participant	Signature	Accession(a), Ratification
Albania	24 Sep 2012
Andorra	26 Sep 2012
Argentina	25 Jul 2012
Austria	28 Feb 2012
Belgium	28 Feb 2012
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)		2 Apr 2013 a
Brazil	28 Feb 2012
Cape Verde	24 Sep 2012
Chile	28 Feb 2012
Costa Rica	28 Feb 2012
Cyprus	27 Jul 2012
Ecuador	24 Apr 2013
Finland	28 Feb 2012
Gabon		25 Sep 2012 a
Germany	28 Feb 2012	28 Feb 2013
Italy	28 Feb 2012
Liechtenstein	24 Sep 2012
Luxembourg	28 Feb 2012
Madagascar	24 Sep 2012
Maldives	28 Feb 2012
Mali	28 Feb 2012
Malta	18 Apr 2012
Mauritius	13 Aug 2012
Montenegro	28 Feb 2012
Morocco	28 Feb 2012
Paraguay	26 Sep 2012
Peru	28 Feb 2012
Portugal	28 Feb 2012
Romania	13 Jun 2012
Senegal	1 Oct 2012
Serbia	28 Feb 2012
Slovakia	28 Feb 2012
Slovenia	28 Feb 2012
Spain	28 Feb 2012
Thailand	25 Sep 2012	25 Sep 2012
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	23 May 2012
Turkey	24 Sep 2012
Uruguay	28 Feb 2012

Declarations and Reservations

(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations and reservations were made
upon ratification, acceptance, accession or succession.)

Belgium

Upon Signature

Declaration:

�This signature engages also the French Community, the Flemish Community, the German-speaking Community, the Walloon Region, the Flemish Region and the Brussels-Capital Region.�

Germany

Declaration:

�The Federal Republic of Germany recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications pursuant to Article 12(1) of the Optional Protocol.�

Turkey

Declaration:

The Republic of Turkey declares with regard to the competence of the Committee on the Rights of the Child as provided for by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, that the reservations and declarations it made to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in armed conflict and to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography fully retain their validity.