International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - Implementation in Switzerland
RS 0.107 (GA Res 1989 2053)
Signed on 1 May 1991
Ratified on 24 February 1997
Entry into force on 26 March 1997
Message on 29 June 1994: FF 1994 V 1
About the Convention
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International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Adopted on 20 November 1989, entry into force on 2 September 1990
Ratified by 193 countries (stand July 2008) - Description of the Content on pdhre.org
Reservations
Upon ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child , Switzerland made seven reservations regading five articles.
Optional Protocols
Switzerland ratified the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict as well as the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Reports by Switzerland
Until tody, the Committee on the Rights of the Child examined only the initial periodic report by Switzerland. The second and third report by Switzerland were due in 2007.
- First reporting cycle by Switzerland (2000-2002)
- Activities by NGOs
- Child Rights Network Switzerland
Contact
- Contact person at the administration:
Ms Anne Sirardet, Direction for International Law of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Section Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Tel. 031 322 47 93 - Contact person NGO:
Child Rights Network Switzerland, Coordination Michael Marugg
Hallerstrasse 23, 3012 Bern
email E-Mail
Tel. +41 31 301 92 74
Monitoring
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties, according to art. 43. It also monitors implementation of two optional protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The Committee cannot consider individual complaints.
Obligations by the State
ll States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially two years after acceding to the Convention and then every five years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of «concluding observations».
Update: 27.03.2011
