This book considers the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a
communication procedure as a key contributor to the realization of children's Article 12
Convention on the Rights of the Child participation rights. Weaknesses in the current
formulation of the CRC communication procedure (its first iteration since entry into force 14
April 2014) are examined and suggestions for strengthening of the mechanism in various
respects considered. Actual cases concerning children's fundamental human rights in various
domains and brought under various international human rights mechanisms are considered as
hypothetical OP3-CRC communications complaints. In addition certain domestic cases brought to
the highest State Court are considered as hypothetical OP3-CRC communications brought after
exhaustion of domestic remedies. In this way various significant weaknesses of the OP3-CRC are
illustrated in a compelling meaningful case context and needed amendments highlighted.
