Article 6
1. Each State Party shall take all necessary legal, administrative and other measures to ensure the effective
implementation and enforcement of the provisions of the present Protocol within its jurisdiction.
2. States Parties undertake to make the principles and provisions of the present Protocol widely known and
promoted by appropriate means, to adults and children alike.
3. States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons within their jurisdiction recruited or
used in hostilities contrary to the present Protocol are demobilized or otherwise released from service. States
Parties shall, when necessary, accord to such persons all appropriate assistance for their physical and
psychological recovery and their social reintegration.
Article 7
1. States Parties shall cooperate in the implementation of the present Protocol, including in the prevention of
any activity contrary thereto and in the rehabilitation and social reintegration of persons who are victims of acts
contrary thereto, including through technical cooperation and financial assistance. Such assistance and
cooperation will be undertaken in consultation with the States Parties concerned and the relevant international
organizations.
2. States Parties in a position to do so shall provide such assistance through existing multilateral, bilateral or
other programmes or, inter alia, through a voluntary fund established in accordance with the rules of the
General Assembly.
Article 8
1. Each State Party shall, within two years following the entry into force of the present Protocol for that State
Party, submit a report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child providing comprehensive information on the
measures it has taken to implement the provisions of the Protocol, including the measures taken to implement
the provisions on participation and recruitment.
2. Following the submission of the comprehensive report, each State Party shall include in the reports it submits
to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, in accordance with article 44 of the Convention, any further
information with respect to the implementation of the Protocol. Other States Parties to the Protocol shall submit
a report every five years.
3. The Committee on the Rights of the Child may request from States Parties further information relevant to the
implementation of the present Protocol.
Article 9
1. The present Protocol is open for signature by any State that is a party to the Convention or has signed it.
2. The present Protocol is subject to ratification and is open to accession by any State. Instruments of
ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. The Secretary-General, in his capacity as depositary of the Convention and the Protocol, shall inform all
States Parties to the Convention and all States that have signed the Convention of each instrument of
declaration pursuant to article 3.
Article 10
1. The present Protocol shall enter into force three months after the deposit of the tenth instrument of
ratification or accession.
2. For each State ratifying the present Protocol or acceding to it after its entry into force, the Protocol shall
enter into force one month after the date of the deposit of its own instrument of ratification or accession.
Article 11
1. Any State Party may denounce the present Protocol at any time by written notification to the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, who shall thereafter inform the other States Parties to the Convention and all
States that have signed the Convention. The denunciation shall take effect one year after the date of receipt of
the notification by the Secretary-General. If, however, on the expiry of that year the denouncing State Party is
engaged in armed conflict, the denunciation shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.
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