Committee on the Rights of the Child
| Abbreviation | CRC |
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| Formation | 1991 |
| Type | United Nations Committee |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Head | Chair Ann Marie Skelton |
| Website | ohchr.org/crc |
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The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of experts that monitor and report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The committee also monitors the convention's three optional protocols: the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure. For the Committee, the "best interests of the child" is a threefold concept: it is a substantive right, a fundamental interpretive legal principle, and a procedural rule.