UNITED NATIONS, CMC – No Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country has yet ratified an agreement that went into effect Monday, allowing children the right to complain directly to the United Nations about alleged violations of their rights.
UN child rights experts Monday hailed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure that came into force three months after Costa Rica became the 10th country to deposit its instrument of ratification.
The other countries to ratify the accord are Albania, Bolivia, Gabon, Germany, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain, Thailand and Slovakia.
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