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The United Nations took an important step towards combating gender discrimination with the adoption of a new Optional Protocol to the landmark Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women , say women 's rights advocates . The Government of the Kingdom of Spain is of the view that the reservation by the Government of the State of Qatar is incompatible with the object and purpose of the said Optional Protocol , since it refers to the Protocol as a whole and could seriously restrict or even exclude its application on a basis as ill-defined as the general reference to the Islamic Shariah . A new optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child prohibiting the use of children in armed conflict was adopted in May , and quickly garnered signatures from seventy countries . The Coalition is hoping to help curb the exploitation of child combatants , by supporting the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child . " On 7 November , the third committee of the UN General Assembly ( which deals with human rights ) adopted a new Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture , establishing a system of inspection visits to prisons and places of detention worldwide . Parties to the earlier agreement are not required to adopt the protocol ; sometimes this is made clearer by calling it an " optional protocol " , especially where many parties to the first agreement do not support the protocol.Some examples : the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) established a framework for the development of binding greenhouse gas emission limits , while the Kyoto Protocol contained the specific provisions and regulations later agreed upon . An " Optional Protocol " to a United Nations treaty is an additional document added to an existing treaty , sometimes years after the treaty has come into force . In the next few months , governments around the world will decide whether or not to support the drafting of an '' Optional Protocol '' permitting the consideration of complaints under the International Covenant on Economic , Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR ) . Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime as well as a new optional protocol on trafficking of women and children . This objection shall not preclude the entry into force of the said Optional Protocol between the Kingdom of Spain and the State of Qatar . In a breakthrough in efforts to end the use of child soldiers , six years of negotiations led to agreement on January 21 on a new optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child . She is currently working on a book ( Hart Publishing ) examining the role of national human rights commissions at the international level , and has funding from the AHRC with Professor Malcolm Evans , to evaluate the effectiveness of national mechanisms under the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture .