"As the civil war raged on in northern Shan and Rakhine or Arakan States, with no end in sight and ongoing bilateral ceasefire between the National Alliance – Burma (NA-B) and the Myanmar army or the military far from progressing, the ratification of Myanmar on UN Treaty Banning Use of Child Soldiers is a welcome move for the country. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OPAC) aims to protect children from recruitment and use in hostilities was adopted by the General Assembly on 25 May 2000 and entered into force on 12 February 2002. Myanmar became the 169th state party to the CRC-OPAC in New York on September 27. Earlier, Myanmar signed the first protocol of the CRC in 1991. Two years later, it enacted the Child Rights Bill. In 2012, Myanmar signed the second optional protocol to prohibit child prostitution, child pornography and child slavery..."