Malta has signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Optional Protocol will allow the Committee overseeing the Convention's implementation to receive and examine individual complaints from children and to organize country visits to investigate cases of grave and systematic violations of children's rights.

The Protocol, which was adopted at the 66th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 2011, opened for signature at a signing ceremony held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 28 February 2012. Malta is the 21st signatory of the Protocol.

Ambassador Christopher Grima, Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations signed the protocol - just days after the government was criticised by the PL for not doing so.

See also

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120417/local/protocol-which-enhances-children-s-rights-not-yet-signed-by-malta-pl-spokesman.415912

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