UN Documents: Rights Of The Child

UN Documents: Gathering a body of global Agreements

Original documents from the UN

Rights Of The Child

Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, League of Nations, September 1924, Geneva, Switzerland

1386 (XIV). Declaration of the Rights of the Child, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/14/1386, November 1959, New York, NY

Convention on the Rights of the Child, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/44/25, November 1989, New York, NY

International Literacy Year, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/44/127, December 1989, New York, NY

Framework For Action: Meeting Basic Learning Needs, World Conference on Education for All, March 1990, Jomtien, Thailand

World Declaration on Education For All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs, World Conference on Education for All, March 1990, Jomtien, Thailand

Plan of Action for Implementing the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s, World Summit for Children, September 1990, New York, NY

World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children, World Summit for Children, September 1990, New York, NY

World Summit for Children, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/45/217, December 1990, New York, NY

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/54/263, May 2000, New York, NY

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/54/263, May 2000, New York, NY

Optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/54/263, May 2000, New York, NY

Related humanium.org web pages

What is the Convention on the rights of the child?

The meaning of the child and the rights of the children

Definition of the Convention

Issues of the Convention

The Convention: texts

Full text

Excerpts

Convention adapted for children

History of the Convention

Children’s rights history

The beginnings of the Convention

Adoption of the Convention, 20 november 1989

Signatory States and Parties to the Convention

The Committee on the rights of the child

The Committee: what it is and how it works

Committee’s role and competences

Committee’s general observations

Committee’s limits

Optional Protocols to the Child’s Rights Convention

Optional Protocol to the Convention relating to the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, 2000

Optional Protocol to the Child’s Rights Convention, concerning the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 2000

Optional Protocol to the Child’s Rights Convention regarding the complaints procedure before the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2011.

Further Conventions related to Children’s rights

• Regional conventions

1994 Inter-American Convention on forced diappearance of persons

1996 European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights

1999 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

2007 Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

Education and Development

1986 Declaration on the Right to Development

1990 World Declaration on Education For All (.PDF)

Children and War, International Humanitarian Law

1949 Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

1977 Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

1977 Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

2007 Paris Principles and Paris Commitments on recruitment and use of children in hostilities

Children and Non-discrimination

1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

1995 Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Declaration

Other Texts

1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

1990 United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty

1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption