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Child protection law with UNICEF's figures on child marriage, child labour and birth registration.
Rights
4 records
Rights
Best interests of the child
In all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
Rights
Protection from economic exploitation
Protection from economic exploitation and from hazardous or harmful work.
Rights
Protection of children from violence
Protection from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury, abuse, neglect or exploitation while in anyone's care.
Rights
Right of the child to be heard
A child capable of forming views may express them freely in all matters affecting the child, given due weight by age and maturity.
Treaties
7 records
Treaties
Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
Safeguards for intercountry adoption.
Treaties
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Prompt return of children wrongfully removed across borders.
Treaties
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
Safeguards against statelessness at birth and on loss of nationality.
Treaties
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Best interests of the child, protection from violence and exploitation, the right to be heard.
Treaties
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138)
Minimum ages for admission to employment.
Treaties
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Criminalisation of the sale and sexual exploitation of children.
Treaties
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)
Immediate action against the worst forms of child labour.
Statistics
Recent events
- CRC-OPSC entered into force UN Treaty Collection ↗
- Hague Adoption Convention entered into force Hague Conference on Private International Law ↗
- CRC entered into force UN Treaty Collection ↗
- Hague Child Abduction Convention entered into force Hague Conference on Private International Law ↗
- 1961 Convention entered into force UN Treaty Collection ↗
Areas of law
What we do not have yet
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- No court decisions in the corpus are tagged with this domain's concepts yet.
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Sources UNICEF and ILO via World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0)UN CRC (1989)