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Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. undefined
- Paragraph text
- No reservation may be made in respect of any provision of this Convention, with the exception of the reservations expressly established. Any reservation may be withdrawn at any time.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 1999, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- For the purposes of this Convention, the term child shall apply to all persons under the age of 18.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- International Labour Organization
- Document type
- International treaty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1999
Paragraph
SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia 2002, para. 3b
- Paragraph text
- States Parties shall ensure that appropriate legal and administrative mechanisms and social safety nets and defenses are always in place to: (b) Discourage entry of children into hazardous and harmful labour and ensure implementation of the Ninth SAARC Summit decision to eliminate the evil of child labour from the SAARC region. In doing so, States Parties shall adopt a multi-pronged strategy including the provision of opportunities at the primary level and supportive social safety nets for families that tend to provide child labourers.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2002
Paragraph
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 1999, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Considering that the effective elimination of the worst forms of child labour requires immediate and comprehensive action, taking into account the importance of free basic education and the need to remove the children concerned from all such work and to provide for their rehabilitation and social integration while addressing the needs of their families, and
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- International Labour Organization
- Document type
- International treaty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 1999
Paragraph
The girl child 2013, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
The girl child 2017, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2017
Paragraph
The girl child 2009, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
The rights of the child 2014, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and effective eradication of child labour that is likely to be hazardous, to interfere with the child's education or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, to eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour and to promote education as a key strategy in this regard;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- In countries with economies in transition, women are bearing most of the hardships induced by the economic restructuring and are the first to lose jobs in times of recession. They are being squeezed out from fast-growth sectors. Loss of childcare facilities due to elimination or privatization of State work places, increased need for older care without the corresponding facilities and continuing inequality of access to training for finding re-employment and to productive assets for entering or expanding businesses are current challenges facing women in these countries.
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Year
- 2000
Paragraph
The girl child 2013, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern that an estimated 68 million girls are engaged in child labour and that many of them face the double burden of having to combine economic activities with domestic chores, which deprive them of their childhood and diminish their opportunities to benefit from education and decent employment in the future,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2000, para. 31a
- Paragraph text
- [Further calls upon all States:] To examine and devise comprehensive economic and social solutions, at the national and international levels, to the problems causing children to work and/or to live on the street;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2000
Paragraph
The girl child 2011, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
The girl child 2015, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2015
Paragraph
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1b
- Paragraph text
- [Urges States:] (b) To adopt and enforce requirements for registration of birth and marriage with the aim of definitively determining age at the time of marriage;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that, while under-5 mortality has declined globally, an estimated 5.9 million children under the age of 5 died in 2015, with a global under-5 mortality rate of 43 per 1,000 live births,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
Paragraph
The rights of the child 1998, para. VI.6
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the International Labour Organization concerning the abolition of forced labour and the minimum age for employment, including for particularly hazardous work for children, and to implement those conventions;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Mandate of the Special Rapporteur 2014, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that persons without nationality or birth registration are particularly vulnerable to trafficking,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 12c
- Paragraph text
- [Action is needed to:] (c) Promote legislative measures, incentives and/or measures of encouragement that would enable men and women to take parental leave and receive social security benefits. Such measures should protect working men and women against dismissal and guarantee their right to re-enter employment in an equivalent post;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- These measures should include recognition of the social and economic importance of unremunerated work, and should aim at desegregating the labour market through, inter alia, the adoption and application of laws embodying the principle of equal pay for women and men for equal work or work of equal value.
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Rights of the child: The fight against sexual violence against children 2010, para. 18
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to present her next report to the Council at its sixteenth session;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Family responsibilities rest equally with men and with women. Greater participation of men in family responsibilities, including domestic work and child and dependant care, would contribute to the welfare of children, women and men themselves. Even though this change is bound to be slow and difficult, it remains essential.
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Rights of the child 1999, para. 24a
- Paragraph text
- [Calls upon all States:] That have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the International Labour Organization relating to child labour, in particular the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (Convention No. 29) and the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment Convention, 1973 (Convention No. 138);
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1999
Paragraph
The rights of the child 1997, para. VI.6
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the International Labour Organization concerning the abolition of forced labour and the minimum age for employment, including for particularly hazardous work for children, and to implement those conventions;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Human rights in the administration of justice 2016, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the specific situation and needs of children formerly associated with armed forces or armed groups when accused of crimes under international law allegedly committed while they were associated with armed forces or armed groups,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Child and dependant care can constitute a major source of new jobs for women and men.
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Child participation 2012, para. 83
- Paragraph text
- Most child parliaments are led by adults and often involve young people on an ad hoc or token basis. In some cases, they are composed only of children from privileged backgrounds.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Child participation 2012, para. 87
- Paragraph text
- Most research continues to be initiated and led by adults, involving children as providers of information but only rarely as researchers owing to a range of practical and ethical issues.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Effective Implementation of the OPSC 2010, para. 123
- Paragraph text
- [This approach will make it possible to:] better understand and grasp the multidimensional nature of these phenomena and the vulnerabilities of certain groups of children;
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- The Special Rapporteur is particularly concerned about the high number of children in domestic work (see section 2c). Children are often sought for domestic work as they are seen as cheaper, less demanding and easier to control than adults. There are large numbers of child domestic workers in all continents, with the highest number probably residing in Asia. For example, ILO reports that 175,000 children under 18 are employed in domestic service in Central America, more than 688,000 in Indonesia, 53,942 children under 15 in South Africa and 38,000 children between 5 and 7 in Guatemala. Girls constitute the vast majority of child domestic workers (90 per cent according to some estimates). According to ILO, more girls under 16 years are in domestic service than in any other category of child labour.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2010
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Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector 2011, para. 25
- Paragraph text
- In 1999, the ILO member States, conscious of the magnitude of the problem of children being trapped in the worst forms of child labour, adopted Convention No. 182 (1999) concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. This convention is the reflection of a global consensus that immediate and effective measures should be taken to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour as a matter or urgency. ILO recommendation No. 190 advises ILO members on the implementation of Convention No. 182 and allows for exceptions for children from the age of 16 working in hazardous environments, provided that the health, safety and morals of the children concerned are fully protected and that "the children have received adequate specific instruction or vocational training in the relevant branch of activity".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
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