Moldova to ratify international document extending provisions of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Chisinau, 30 March /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova will ratify the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure. The document extends certain provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The draft decision was approved at a cabinet meeting today, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     

The protocol, ratified by 48 states so far, establishes the international procedure of submitting complaints for the infringement of the rights of the child – the direct procedure, as well as the procedure of inter-state  communication and investigation of serious or systemic infringements. This will allow children from the states which ratified/joined the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to submit complaints directly to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, if they found no solution to their rights violated nationally.  

Through the ratification of the Optional Protocol, Moldova reiterates the commitments to the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, just as they are formulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and commit to implement the national legislation in the field in continuation.     

The decision will enter into force on the date of its publication in Moldova’s Official Journal. 

Moldova ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on 12 December 1990, which entered into force on 25 February 1993. So far,  Moldova has also ratified another two optional protocols to the Convention, which establish additional measures to ensure the protection of the rights of the child: optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the optional protocol on involvement of children in armed conflict.    

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