Raising Understanding among Children and Young People on the optional protocol to the convention on the rights of the child on a communications procedure

These commitments can be found in a document called the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (OPCP).

In this publication you can learn: "What is the United Nations?, "What is a Convention and what is an Optional Protocol?", "What is a communication procedure?", and more helpful information.

This booklet by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children (SRSG) provides a summary of the OPCP. It captures the major points of the official version. Some details, however, are not included. If you have more questions or need to use the OPCP for legal purposes, we recommend that you refer to the official, full length version.