A/HRC/22/30 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 December 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-second session Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 19/37 on the rights of the child Note by the secretariat 1. The present note is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 19/37, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to the Council, at its twenty-second session, a report on the rights of the child, with information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 2. The secretariat has the honour to refer the Human Rights Council to the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child submitted to the General Assembly (A/67/225). No new ratifications of the Convention have been registered since the submission of that report. As at 1 December 2012, there were 150 States parties to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and 161 States parties to the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. 3. The list of States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto is publicly available on the treaty body webpage of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm). GE.12-18759