<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (April 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (April 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of independent experts that monitors and reports on implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by governments that ratify the Convention . The Committee also monitors implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OP - AC) and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (OP - SC). </P> <P> The CRC is one of the ten UN human rights treaty - based bodies . The Committee was created by the Convention on 27 February 1991 . The Committee is made up of 18 members from different countries and legal systems who are of' high moral standing' and experts in the field of human rights . Although members are nominated and elected by States party to the Convention, Committee members act in a personal capacity . They do not represent their countries' governments or any other organization to which they might belong . Members are elected for a four - year term and can be re-elected if nominated . </P>

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