A/HRC/RES/17/18
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 5
Human rights bodies and mechanisms
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
17/18 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child on a communications procedure
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 11/1 of 17 June 2009 and 13/3 of 24
March 2010 on the Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention
on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure,
1.
Welcomes the work of the Open-ended Working Group and takes note of the
report on its second session;1
2.
Adopts the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on
a communications procedure as contained in the annex to the present resolution;
3.
Recommends that the General Assembly, in accordance with paragraph 5 (c)
of Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, adopt the following resolution:
“The General Assembly,
Welcoming the adoption by the Human Rights Council, through its resolution
17/18 of 17 June 2011, of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child on a communications procedure,
1.
Adopts the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child on a communications procedure as contained in the annex to the present
resolution;
2.
Recommends that the Optional Protocol be opened for signature at a
signing ceremony to be held in 2012, and requests the Secretary-General and the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the necessary
assistance.”
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
1
GE.11-14840
A/HRC/17/36.