Bridging the Non-Protection of Children's Rights through the Optional Protocol to the CRC on Communications Procedure and a Future European Court

Sa？etak The purpose of this paper is to present benefits of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as to analyze the extent that this valuable international document has contributed to the improvement of the legal and general status of children and to consider the difficulties in its application in practice. Furthermore, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure and its impact on legal mechanisms for children's rights protection is analyzed and special consideration is given to the problem of legal regulation and efficient protection of children's rights in the framework of European integration. Based on the undertaken analysis, proposals for better, more efficient and more coherent protection of the children's rights at the level of the EU are offered, including judicial protection by establishing a European Court for the Rights of the Child