The Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse provides for the establishment of a Committee of the Parties to monitor its implementation. The systematic monitoring of the Convention will be one of its major strengths.

Please find below more information on the establishment of the Committee of the Parties, as described in the Convention:

Monitoring mechanism

The Lanzarote Committee (i.e. the Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse) is the body established to monitor whether Parties effectively implement the Lanzarote Convention.

Composed of both present and potential representatives of the Parties to the Convention, the Committee evaluates the situation on the protection of children against sexual violence at national level on the basis of the information which has been provided by the national authorities and other sources in their replies to both a General Overview Questionnaire and  Thematic Questionnaire.

All replies to both questionnaires can be found online. They are categorised by State, other stakeholders and by question.

The Committee is also mandated to facilitate the collection, analysis and exchange of information, experience and good practices to improve capacity to prevent and combat sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children. In this regard, the Committee organises capacity building activities where exchanges of information but also hearings on specific challenges raised by the implementation of the Convention will be held.

Members

The composition of the Lanzarote Committee is governed by Rule 2 of its Rules of Procedure

• Committee Members
• Bureau Members

• Declaration on protecting migrant and refugee children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
• 2nd implementation report - Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The strategies
• Special report further to a visit of a delegation of the Lanzarote Committee to transit zones at the Serbian/Hungarian border (5-7 July 2017)
• Interpretative Opinion on the applicability of the Lanzarote Convention to sexual offences against children facilitated through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
• Special report "Protecting children affected by the refugee crisis from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse"
• Declaration adopted on 16 June 2016 on web addresses advertising child sexual abuse material or images or any other offences established in accordance with the Lanzarote Convention
• 1st implementation report - Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The framework
• Opinion on Article 23 of the Lanzarote Convention - Solicitation of children for sexual purposes through information and communication technologies (Grooming)

• 3rd activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 18 March 2016 - 12 May 2017)
• 2nd activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 12 September 2014 - 17 March 2016) 
• 1st activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 20 September 2011 - 11 September 2014)

21st meeting
Strasbourg, 20-22 June 2018

20th meeting
Strasbourg, 29-31 January 2018

19th meeting
Strasbourg, 25-27 October 2017

18th meeting
Strasbourg, 10-12 May 2017

17th meeting
Strasbourg, 1-3 March 2017

16th meeting
Lyon, 23-25 November 2016

15th meeting
Strasbourg, 14-17 June 2016

14th meeting
Strasbourg, 15-17 March 2016

13th meeting
Strasbourg, 1-4 December 2015

12th meeting
Strasbourg, 15-17 June 2015

11th meeting
The Hague, 17-19 March 2015

10th meeting
Strasbourg, 2-4 December 2014

9th meeting
Strasbourg, 9-11 September 2014

8th meeting
Strasbourg, 8-10 April 2014

7th meeting
Madrid, 9 December 2013

6th meeting
Strasbourg, 14-15 October 2013

5th meeting
Strasbourg, 15-16 May 2013

4th meeting
Strasbourg, 21-22 March 2013

3rd meeting
Strasbourg, 15-16 October 2012

2nd meeting
Strasbourg, 29-30 March 2012

1st meeting
Strasbourg, 20-21 September 2011