This Convention also has 3 optional protocols that have subsequently been adopted by the General Assembly which are only applicable to States who signed and ratified the CRC. South Africa signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1993 and ratified in 1995. The initial country report was submitted in 1999 and the Portfolio Committee on Women, Children and People with Disabilities is aware of the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities' process for obtaining input from civil society on the country report (by 22 March 2013) and submitting it to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child by 15 July 2013.