South Sudan before the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Our focus on Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a UN treaty body responsible for reviewing how States Parties implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child . It is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history - ratified by every UN member state except the United States of America. South Sudan ratified the Convention and its optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 23 January 2015. It has not, however, signed the Convention’s other optional...