Children

Core Documents

African (Banjul) Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

American Convention on Human Rights

American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man

Arab Charter of Human Rights

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Documents

Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child

Declaration of the Rights of the Child

Treaties

Convention Concerning Minimum Age (ILO Convention 138)

Convention Concerning the Age for Admission of Children to Employment in Agriculture (ILO Convention 10)

Convention Concerning Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO Convention 182)

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (‘Beijing Rules’)

UN Treaty Body General Comments

Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment 5 on General Measures of Implementation for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Human Rights Committee General Comment 17 on Rights of the Child

Regional Documents

Regional Treaties

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights

European Social Charter (1961)

European Social Charter (Revised)

San Salvador Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights

Judgments and Decisions by Regional Courts and Bodies

European Court of Human Rights

A v United Kingdom

Campbell and Cosans v United Kingdom

Costello-Roberts v United Kingdom

E and Others v United Kingdom

Tyrer v United Kingdom

V v United Kingdom

Z and Others v United Kingdom