To defend our actions at the Council of Human Rights or the Committee on the Rights of the Child, BICE uses various legal texts. You will find below a non-exhaustive list of the key legal instruments we use in our statements. Chek out our online resources.
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
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure
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
- Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
- Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners
- Administration of Juvenile Justice, Vienna Guidelines
- Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power
- Basic principles on the use of restorative justice programmes in criminal matters
- Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking
- Guidelines on Just ice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime
- United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules)
- United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems
General Comments – Committee on the Rights of the Child
- General comment No. 17 (2013) on the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts (art. 31)
- General comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights
- General comment No. 15 (2013) on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24)
- General comment No. 14 (2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration (art. 3, para. 1)
- General comment No. 13 (2011) – The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence
- General Comment No. 12 (2009): The right of the child to be heard
- General Comment No. 11 (2009) Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention
- General Comment Nº 10 (2007): Children’s rights in juvenile justice
- General Comment No. 9 (2006): The rights of children with disabilities
- General Comment Nº 8 (2006): The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia)
- General comment No. 7 (2005): Implementing child rights in early childhood
- General Comment No. 6 (2005): Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside Their Country of Origin
- General Comment No. 5 (2003): General Measures of Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- General comment No. 4: Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- General comment No. 3 (2003): HIV/AIDS and the rights of the children
- General comment No. 2: The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of the Child
- General comment No. 1: The Aims of 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
International Labour Organization (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
- Forced Labour Convention No 29, 1930
- Migration for Employment Convention No 66, 1939
- Migration for Employment Convention, revised, No 97, 1949
- Domestic Workers Convention, No 189, 2011
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
Guidelines and Recommandations
- Recommandation No R(80)4 on violence in the family
- Recommandation No R(90)2 on social measures concerning violence within the family
- Recommandation No R(93)2 on the medico-legal aspects of child abuse
- Recommandation No R(99)19 concerning mediation in penal matters
- Recommandation No R(2002)5 on the protection of women against violence
- Recommandation No R(2005)5 on the rights of children living in residential institutions
- Recommandation 1977 (2007) on sexual abuse linked to “date-rape drugs”
- Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on child-friendly justice
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
