WORKING GROUPS

Members of the NGO Group form working groups on particular themes and issues related to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in order to strengthen their actions in advancing child rights with the UN System and other international fora. The groups are a platform for discussion and debate as well as for joint action.

Working Groups are currently working in the following areas:

• Children and Violence
  Facilitates NGO follow-up to the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children.
• Children without Parental Care
  Promotes and contributes to drawing up international standards for the protection of children without parental care, and to secure their adoption by the UN General Assembly.
• Complaints mechanism

Campaign for the establishment of an Optional Protocol to the CRC which would create a complaints mechanism.

• Human Rights Council
  Aims to ensure that the Human Rights Council addresses the specific rights and situations of children worldwide in its work.
• Indigenous Children
  Provides advice and support to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the development of a General Comment Link to CRC General Comments on Indigenous Child Rights
• Sexual Exploitation
  Plays an active role in the organization of the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children.