A/HRC/RES/13/3 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 April 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council* 13/3 Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure The Human Rights Council, Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 11/1 of 17 June 2009 on the Openended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 64/146 of 18 December 2009 on the rights of the child, Bearing in mind paragraph 33 (p) of General Assembly resolution 64/146, in which the Assembly called upon States to ensure that child-sensitive procedures were made available to children and their representatives so that children had access to means of facilitating effective remedies for any breaches of any of their rights arising from the Convention on the Rights of the Child through independent advice, advocacy and complaint procedures, including justice mechanisms, and that their views were heard when they were involved or their interests were concerned in judicial or administrative procedures in a manner consistent with the procedural rules of national law, Noting with interest general comment No. 5 (2003) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, in which the Committee emphasized that children’s special and dependent status creates real difficulties for them in pursuing remedies for breaches of their rights, and * GE.10-12803 The resolutions and decisions of the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its thirteenth session (A/HRC/13/56), chap. I.