CRC Reporting

The Committee regularly reviews each State party to the CRC and its Optional Protocols to assess the progress each State has made in implementing them and to provide country-specific recommendations.

Understanding and taking part in the various stages of the CRC reporting cycle is a powerful way for children’s rights defenders, including children, to monitor and help improve children’s rights in their countries.

Child Rights Connect is the strategic partner of the Committee and OHCHR for the engagement of children’s rights defenders in the reporting cycle. Our role is to strengthen the capacity of children’s rights defenders, including children, to use the CRC reporting cycle as an advocacy tool and in connection with other relevant UN human rights entry points. Our approach is to maximize the potential of the Child Rights Connect network to empower children’s rights defenders in a sustainable way and with multiplying and long-term effect.

Awareness raising

Timely, accessible and multilingual public information, tools and resources about all the areas of work of the Committee

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Technical advice

Tools and facilitation of peer-to-peer exchanges, on-going support on coalition building and how to use the CRC reporting in connection to other UN mechanisms

Capacity building

Training and facilitation to provide customized and in depth expertise and empower children’s rights defenders

Facilitation of participation

For key meetings between the Committee and children’s rights defenders, including children

The Reporting Process

To learn more about the standard and the simplified reporting cycles and get advice on how to engage, please visit our dedicated website and read our guides and tools:

Standard reporting cycle

Standard Reporting Cycle
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Simplified reporting cycle

Simplified Reporting Cycle
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The online platform

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Child Rights Connect provides a confidential and secured online platform for children’s rights defenders (NGOs, NHRIs, Ombudspersons and children) to ensure:

  • the effective transmission of written information to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and OHCHR.
  • the effective participation of children’s rights defenders in the Committee’s pre-sessions in Geneva.

Alternative report submission

The Committee and OHCHR, its Secretariat, use this platform as the official process for providing written and oral inputs to the Committee, as it is indicated on OHCHR website.

Child Rights Connect does not endorse the content of the reports. If you do not want to use this platform you should contact the Committee Secretariat at crc@ohchr.org

Child Rights Connect provides restricted access to the secured platform t o the Committee Secretariat only. Child Rights Connect deals with the information provided in a confidential manner, except for the submissions that are authorized for publication on OHCHR website. Child Rights Connect cannot be held responsible if unauthorized third parties receive the information.

Our website and its related data are hosted in Switzerland with secure, reliable and environment-friendly data centres.


Submit your alternative reports
and additional information

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Pre-session participation and children’s meetings

As per the Committee’s Guidelines, only those who have submitted written information can request an invitation.

  • Handbook for Adults Participating in the Pre-Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: English, Français, Español
  • Handbook for Children Participating in the Pre-Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: English, Français, Español
  • Working methods for the participation of children in the reporting process of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: English, Français, Español.


Register to the pre-session

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Session monitoring

  • Handbook for Adults Monitoring and Engaging in a Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: English, Français, Español
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