UN Documents: Rights Of The Child
UN Documents: Gathering a body of global Agreements
Original documents from the UN
Rights Of The Child
International Literacy Year, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/44/127, December 1989, New York, NY
World Summit for Children, General Assembly Resolution, A/RES/45/217, December 1990, 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
The Convention: texts
Convention adapted for children
History of the Convention
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
Optional Protocols to the Child’s Rights Convention
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
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
