"In 1991, Burma ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Every seven years, the Committee for the CRC (Committee) does a review to assess whether member states have adhered to the principles of the Convention. Burma will come up for review in 2012. After the government submitted a report to the Committee in 2009, a group of organizations called the Child Rights Forum of Burma submitted a "Shadow Report" detailing the challenges currently facingchildren in Burma. Subsequently, the Child Rights Forum requested that the Burma Lawyers? Council do a legal analysis of the status of children in Burma..."