Kazakh Senate ratifies Optional Protocol to Convention of the Rights of the Child

The Kazakh Senate deputies ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, Kazinform News Agency reports.

The law's key goal is ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure adopted by the UN GA resolution on December 19, 2011.

The Optional Protocol is an additional part to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Childs ratified by Kazakhstan on June 8, 1994. The protocol establishes children and their parents’ (legal representatives) complaint mechanisms in case of a violation of their rights guaranteed under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It allows children or their representatives to complain to the Committee on the Rights of the Child about a violation of the Convention or any of the Optional Protocols to which the State is a party.