Committee on the Rights of the Child
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is a group of 18 international human rights experts that checks that each government is doing all it can to make sure children and young people can enjoy their human rights. The UN Committee meets 3 times a year in Geneva, Switzerland.
''We need to make sure the Government acts on the UN’s advice and recommendations.'' Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Children's Commissioner
Every 5 years, the UK Government must send a report to the UN Committee to say how it is putting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice. Charities, Children’s Commissioners and children and young people can also send evidence to the UN about how well they think the Government is doing.
In June 2008, children and young people from CRAE took the findings from their children’s rights investigation to the UN in Geneva. Senior people from the Government then visited the UN in September 2008 to answer the UN Committee’s questions about children’s human rights in the UK.
After the UN Committee had heard from everyone, it made 124 recommendations to the UK Government about where it must do more to protect human rights. These are called concluding observations. The UN expects the Government to take action on these recommendations to improve the rights of children and young people.
Download our summary of the UN’s recommendations in 2008
