Full
Text of the UN Child Rights Convention (CRC)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) : PART III
Article 46
The present Convention shall be open for signature by all States.
Article 47
The present Convention is subject to ratification. Instruments
of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
Article 48
The present Convention shall remain open for accession by any
State. The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article 49
1. The present Convention
shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the date
of deposit with the Secretary-General of the United Nations of
the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession.
2. For each State ratifying
or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the twentieth
instrument of ratification or accession, the Convention shall
enter into force on the thirtieth day after the deposit by such
State of its instrument of ratification or accession.
Article 50
1.
Any State Party may propose an amendment and file it with the Secretary-General
of the United Nations. The Secretary-General shall thereupon communicate
the proposed amendment to States Parties, with a request that they
indicate whether they favour a conference of States Parties for
the purpose of considering and voting upon the proposals. In the
event that, within four months from the date of such communication,
at least one third of the States Parties favour such a conference,
the Secretary-General shall convene the conference under the auspices
of the United Nations. Any amendment adopted by a majority of States
Parties present and voting at the conference shall be submitted
to the General Assembly for approval.
2. An amendment adopted in
accordance with paragraph 1 of the present article shall enter
into force when it has been approved by the General Assembly of
the United Nations and accepted by a two-thirds majority of States
Parties.
3. When an amendment enters
into force, it shall be binding on those States Parties, which
have accepted it, other States Parties still being bound by the
provisions of the present, Convention and any earlier amendments,
which they have accepted.
Article 51
1. The Secretary-General of
the United Nations shall receive and circulate to all States the
text of reservations made by States at the time of ratification
or accession.
2. A reservation incompatible
with the object and purpose of the present Convention shall not
be permitted.
3. Reservations may be withdrawn
at any time by notification to that effect addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, who shall then inform all States. Such
notification shall take effect on the date on which the Secretary-General
receives it
Article 52
A State Party may denounce the present Convention by written notification
to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Denunciation becomes
effective one year after the date of receipt of the notification
by the Secretary-General.
Article 53
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is designated as the
depositary of the present Convention.
Article 54
The original of the present Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic,
shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
In witness thereof the undersigned plenipotentiaries, being duly
authorized thereto by their respective governments, have signed
the present Convention.
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