The German Institute for Human Rights (GIHR) is the independent National Human Rights Institution of Germany. It is accredited according to the Paris Principles of the United Nations (A-status) and is specifically mandated to monitor the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the following, the GIHR will answer the questionnaire of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants; the answers are limited to those questions on which the Institute has worked in its function as CRC monitoring body in particular in recent times.
