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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 2b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | (b) Accused juvenile persons shall be separated from adults and brought as speedily as possible for adjudication. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1966 | ||
ICED - International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance 2006, para. 2b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. Each State Party may establish:] (b) Without prejudice to other criminal procedures, aggravating circumstances, in particular in the event of the death of the disappeared person or the commission of an enforced disappearance in respect of pregnant women, minors, persons with disabilities or other particularly vulnerable persons. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The authentication or similar formalities otherwise required shall be unnecessary when requests for cooperation encompassed by this Convention are transmitted via consular or diplomatic channels or via the Central Authorities, and when conveyed directly from one tribunal to another in the border area of the States Parties. No authentication in the requesting State Party shall be required in the case of related documents returned via the same channels.
Where necessary, the requests shall be translated into the official language or languages of the State Party to which they are addressed. With respect to attachments, a translation of the summary of the essential information shall suffice. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In any proceeding provided for under this chapter, the competent authority may order the person or organization responsible for international traffic in minors to pay the costs and expenses of locating and returning the minor if such person or organization is a party to the proceeding.
A person or authority lodging a request for the return or, where applicable, the competent authority may bring a civil action to recover costs, including legal fees and the expenses of locating and returning the minor, unless said costs were already assessed in a criminal proceeding or a proceeding under this chapter.
The competent authority or any injured person or authority may bring a civil action for damages against the persons or organizations responsible for the international traffic in minors involving the minor. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For the purpose of the present Convention: c) "Unlawful purpose" includes, among others, prostitution, sexual exploitation, servitude or any other purpose unlawful in either the State of the minor's habitual residence or the State Party where the minor is located. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties to the present Convention undertake to: b) establish through their Central Authorities mechanisms for the exchange of information about any domestic statute, case law, administrative practices, statistics and modalities regarding international traffic in minors in their States; and | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties to the present Convention undertake to: c) order such measures as may be necessary to remove any obstacles that might affect the enforcement of this Convention in their States. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The purpose of the present Convention, with a view to protection of the fundamental rights of minors and their best interests, is the prevention and punishment of the international traffic in minors as well as the regulation of its civil and penal aspects.
Accordingly, the States Parties to this Convention undertake to:
a) ensure the protection of minors in consideration of their best interests;
b) institute a system of mutual legal assistance among the States Parties, dedicated to the prevention and punishment of the international traffic in minors, as well as adopt related administrative and legal provisions to that effect; and
c) ensure the prompt return of minors who are victims of international traffic to the State of their habitual residence, bearing in mind the best interests of the minors. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The following shall have competence in cases of crimes involving international traffic in minors:
a) the State Party where the wrongful conduct occurred;
b) the State Party that is the habitual residence of the minor;
c) the State Party in which the alleged offender is located if said offender has not been extradited.
d) the State Party in which the minor who is a victim of said traffic is located.
For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, the State Party that first conducted formal proceedings concerning the wrongful act shall have preference. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | This Convention shall apply to any minor who is habitually resident in a State Party or is located in a State Party at the time when an act of international traffic occurs in respect of him or her.
For the purpose of the present Convention: b) "International traffic in minors" means the abduction, removal or retention, or attempted abduction, removal or retention, of a minor for unlawful purposes or by unlawful means. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | To the extent possible, States Parties shall cooperate with States that are not Parties in preventing and punishing international traffic in minors, and in protecting and caring for minors who are victims of that wrongful act.
The competent authorities of a State Party are to notify the competent authorities of a State that is not a Party whenever a minor is within its territory who has been a victim of international traffic in minors in a State Party. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties to the present Convention undertake to: a) assist each other promptly and expeditiously through their Central Authorities, as permitted by the domestic laws of each State and by applicable international treaties, to conduct judicial and administrative proceedings, to take evidence, and to take any other procedural steps that may be necessary for fulfilling the objectives of this Convention; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The judicial or administrative authorities of the State Party of the minor's habitual residence, or those of the State Party where the minor is or is assumed to be retained, shall be competent to hear the request for the minor's location and return, at the option of the complainants.
When in the complainants' view there are urgent reasons, the request may be submitted to the judicial or administrative authorities of the State Party where the wrongful act occurred. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Adoptions and other similar legal proceedings performed in a State Party shall be subject to annulment if they had their origin or purpose in international traffic in minors.
In such annulment, the minor's best interests shall be taken into account at all times.
The annulment shall be subject to the law and the competent authorities of the State where the adoption or legal proceedings concerned took place. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In keeping with the purposes of this Convention, the Central Authorities of the States Parties shall exchange information and cooperate with their competent judicial and administrative authorities on all matters concerning control of the entry of minors into and departure from their territories. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION conventions on international protection of minors, particularly the provisions of Articles 11 and 35 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. States Parties shall in particular: c) Build rehabilitation facilities for accused and imprisoned youth who are still minors and house them separately from adults; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Having confirmed that a victim of traffic in minors is present within their jurisdiction, the competent authorities of a State Party shall take such immediate measures as may be necessary for the minor's protection, including those of a preventive nature to ensure that the minor is not improperly removed to another State.
The Central Authorities shall inform the competent authorities of the State of the minor's previous habitual residence of all such measures. The intervening authorities shall take such steps as may be necessary to keep the persons or authorities seeking the minor's location and return duly informed of the measures adopted. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties to this Protocol recognize that the right to work to which the foregoing article refers presupposes that everyone shall enjoy that right under just, equitable, and satisfactory conditions, which the States Parties undertake to guarantee in their internal legislation, particularly with respect to: f. The prohibition of night work or unhealthy or dangerous working conditions and, in general, of all work which jeopardizes health, safety, or morals, for persons under 18 years of age. As regards minors under the age of 16, the work day shall be subordinated to the provisions regarding compulsory education and in no case shall work constitute an impediment to school attendance or a limitation on benefiting from education received; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1988 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The original instrument of this Convention, the English, French, Portuguese and Spanish texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall forward an authenticated copy of its text to the Secretariat of the United Nations for registration and publication in accordance with Article 102 of its Charter. The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States shall notify the Member States of the Organization and the States that have acceded to the Convention of the signatures, deposits of instruments of ratification, accession and denunciation, as well as of reservations, if any, and of their withdrawal.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, do hereby sign the present Convention.
DONE AT MEXICO, D.F., MEXICO, this eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | AWARE that the international traffic in minors is a universal concern; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | REAFFIRMING the importance of international cooperation to achieve effective protection of the best interests of minors, | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 3c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. The States Parties hereby undertake to accord adequate protection to the family unit and in particular: c. To adopt special measures for the protection of adolescents in order to ensure the full development of their physical, intellectual and moral capacities; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1988 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | This Convention shall apply to any minor who is habitually resident in a State Party or is located in a State Party at the time when an act of international traffic occurs in respect of him or her.
For the purpose of the present Convention: a) "Minor" means any human being below the age of eighteen. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each State Party may, at the time of signature, ratification or accession to the present Convention or at any time thereafter, declare that it will not entertain in any civil suit a challenge to the existence of the facts of the crime or the guilt of the person convicted when a conviction has been handed down for this crime in another State Party. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties shall adopt the measures needed to ensure that no costs are charged for proceedings to secure the return of the minor, in accordance with their laws and shall advise persons legitimately interested in the return of the minor of the public defender services, benefits to the needy and other forms of free legal aid to which they may be entitled under the laws and regulations of the respective States Parties. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The competent authorities in border areas of the States Parties may, at any time, directly agree on more expeditious procedures to locate and return minors than those provided for in the present Convention and without prejudice thereto.
None of the provisions in the present Convention shall be interpreted as restricting the more favorable practices that the competent authorities of the States Parties may agree to follow for the matters covered by this Convention. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Care or custody of a minor may be revoked whenever it has its origin or purpose in the international traffic in minors, under the same conditions provided for in the preceding article. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall protect the minor's interests with a view to ensuring that all procedures applied pursuant to the present Convention shall remain confidential. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1994 | ||
Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors 1994, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | This Convention shall apply to any minor who is habitually resident in a State Party or is located in a State Party at the time when an act of international traffic occurs in respect of him or her. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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