Implementation of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict
on 25 May 2000 (entered into force on 12 February 2002)
SR 0.107.1 (AS 2002 3579)
Accession by Switzerland: 26 June, 2002
Entry into force: 26 July 2002
Message from 25 Mai 2000: BBl 2001 6309
The initial periodic reporty by Switzerland about the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict was submitted to the Committee on the rights of children on 9 Januar, 2006.
- Text of the Optional Protocol
ratified by 123 countries (August 2008) - First report on 30 June 2004 (in French, pdf, 21 p.)
- Concluding observations by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of 17 March 2006 (pdf, 3 p.)
See also
- Committee on rights of child examines report of Switzerland on children and armed conflict
Press release by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 9 January 2006 - Written Submission to the Committee for the Rights of the Child – Follow-up after the dialogue with Switzerland
Position paper by TRIAL concerning the principle of universal jurisdiction, 10 January 2006 ( pdf, 4 p.)
Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
of 25 May, 2000 (entered into force on 18 January, 2002)
RS 0.107.2 (RO 2006 5441)
Signed by Switzerland: 19 September, 2006
Entrey into force: 19 Oktober, 2006
Message on 11 March, 2005: BBl 2005 2807
When Switzerland ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the Federal Council opened a consultation procedure to modify the Swiss legislation concerning trafficking of human beings in order to revise the concerned article in the Swiss Penal Law. Before that, it only sanctioned the sale of children for sexual exploitation purposes. Since the ratification, Switzerland includes penal sanctions for the sale of children for the profit of organ trafficking and forced labour.
- Text of the Optional Protocol
Ratified by 115 countries (July 2008)
- Press release of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs
in French/German, 15 October, 2003 - Message of the Federal Council on the revision of the art.182 of the Swiss Penal Code (pdf, 42 p.)
in French, 11 March, 2005 - Arrêté fédéral portant approbation et mise en oeuvre du Protocole facultatif (pdf, 4p.)
in French, 24 March, 2006
