Key legal instruments

  • United Nations

Conventions and Declarations

Convention on Protection Of Children And Cooperation In Respect of Intercountry Adoption »

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities »

Convention on the Rights of the Child »

United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training »

Optional Protocol to the CRC on the sale of Children Child prostitution and Child pornography »

Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Involvement of Children in Armed conflict »

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime »

Guidelines and Rules

Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System »

Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children »

United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines) »

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

United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (The Tokyo Rules) »

Convention against Discrimination in Education »

Convention on Technical and Vocational Education »

  • UNESCO

Conventions and Declarations

Conventions

Declaration of Amsterdam on the right to and the rights in education »

The Right to Basic Education as a Fundamental Right and the Legal Framework for its Financing »

Declarations

The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education »

World Declaration on Education For All, Jomtien, Thailand »

World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century: Vision and Action »

Dakar Framework for Action, The World Education Forum African Youth Charter »

Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa »

Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa »

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child »

Dakar Framework for Action, The World Education Forum »

  • ILO Conventions

Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) »

Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised) »

Minimum Age Convention »

Minimum Age (Agriculture) Convention »

Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) Convention »

Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) Convention (Revised) »

Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised) »

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry) Convention »

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention »

Night Work of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention »

Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention »

Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention »

  • Council of Europe

Conventions

Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings »

Convention on Contact Concerning Children »

Convention on Cybercrime »

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

European Convention For The Prevention Of Torture and Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment »

European Convention on The Adoption of Children »

European Convention on the Adoption of Children (Revised) »

European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights »

European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Concerning Custody of Children »

Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse »

European Convention on the Adoption of Children (Revised) »

European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights »

  • African Union

African Youth Charter »

Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa »

Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa »

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child »

  • Asia

Conventions and Declarations

Conventions

SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution »

SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements For The Promotion of Child welfare In South Asia »

Declarations

Declaration on the Commitments for Children in ASEAN »

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