The networking of international NGOs to participate in the drafting process and later monitoring and promotion of the Convention on the Rights of the Child had a profound impact not seen before in human rights history. National NGOs not customarily involved in human rights have also joined forces to promote the rights of children and to hold their governments accountable in a manner laid out in the Convention.
From Allen, Denise (1999), Networking in the NGO Community, University of Ghent International Interdisciplinary Course on Children's Rights
Here you will find a list of NGO alternative reports submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, alongside a list of initial and second periodic reports considered by the Committee. We provide links to the NGO alternative reports -- all existing and public reports submitted to the Committee on the Convention of the Rights of the Child by NGOs and NGO Coalitions. This report below is adapted from Annexes VI and VII in "Report of the twenty-seventh session," CRC/C/108.
Instructions for searching for reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child:
- NGO alternative reports can be searched by a combination of country, session and by organisation. Alternative Reports Search form.
- The initial and second periodic reports submitted by State Parties, as well concluding observations adopted by the Committee can be read in full on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. To locate reports, type in the report symbol of the report in 'Treaty Bodies Database Search', and then click "Go". The treaty bodies database contains all documents issued since 1992 by the six committees established to monitor the implementation of the principal international human rights treaties (also referred as "treaty monitoring bodies" or "treaty bodies"). This includes Committee on the Rights of the Child. The database contains the full-text documents in English, French and Spanish.
The copyright of the NGO alternative reports are retained by the authors and use thereof must be duly acknowledged. The database is the property of the Liaison Unit of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and is managed by that unit. For further information or other enquiries please contact the Liaison Unit at dci-ngo.group@pingnet.ch.