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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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New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 5f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [At the outset of a large movement of refugees, receiving States, bearing in mind their national capacities and international legal obligations, in cooperation, as appropriate, with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, international organizations and other partners and with the support of other States as requested, in conformity with international obligations, would:] Work to ensure the immediate birth registration for all refugee children born on their territory and provide adequate assistance at the earliest opportunity with obtaining other necessary documents, as appropriate, relating to civil status, such as marriage, divorce and death certificates; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2016 | ||
New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 5e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [At the outset of a large movement of refugees, receiving States, bearing in mind their national capacities and international legal obligations, in cooperation, as appropriate, with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, international organizations and other partners and with the support of other States as requested, in conformity with international obligations, would:] Use the registration process to identify specific assistance needs and protection arrangements, where possible, including but not exclusively for refugees with special protection concerns, such as women at risk, children, especially unaccompanied children and children separated from their families, child-headed and single-parent households, victims of trafficking, victims of trauma and survivors of sexual violence, as well as refugees with disabilities and older persons; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2016 | ||
New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 7c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Host States, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other United Nations entities, financial institutions and other relevant partners, would, as appropriate:] Encourage and empower refugees, at the outset of an emergency phase, to establish supportive systems and networks that involve refugees and host communities and are age- and gender-sensitive, with a particular emphasis on the protection and empowerment of women and children and other persons with specific needs; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2016 | ||
New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 8i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The global compact could include, but would not be limited to, the following elements:] Effective protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, including women and children, regardless of their migratory status, and the specific needs of migrants in vulnerable situations; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2016 | ||
New York Declaration For Refugees and Migrants 2016, para. 7b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Host States, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other United Nations entities, financial institutions and other relevant partners, would, as appropriate:] Deliver assistance, to the extent possible, through appropriate national and local service providers, such as public authorities for health, education, social services and child protection; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2016 | ||
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Art. 94. The Detaining Power shall encourage intellectual, educational and recreational pursuits, sports and games amongst internees, whilst leaving them free to take part in them or not. It shall take all practicable measures to ensure the exercise thereof, in particular by providing suitable premises. All possible facilities shall be granted to internees to continue their studies or to take up new subjects. The education of children and young people shall be ensured; they shall be allowed to attend schools either within the place of internment or outside. Internees shall be given opportunities for physical exercise, sports and outdoor games. For this purpose, sufficient open spaces shall be set aside in all places of internment. Special playgrounds shall be reserved for children and young people. | International Committee of the Red Cross | International treaty |
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| 1949 | ||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1966 | ||
ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. Every child has the right to acquire a nationality. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1966 | ||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. 2c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (c) To encourage the provision of the necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life, in particular through promoting the establishment and development of a network of child-care facilities; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1979 | ||
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Any other State may accede to the Convention.
The instrument of accession shall be deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Convention shall enter into force for a State acceding to it on the first day of the third calendar month after the deposit of its instrument of accession.
The accession will have effect only as regards the relations between the acceding State and such Contracting States as will have declared their acceptance of the accession. Such a declaration will also have to be made by any Member State ratifying, accepting or approving the Convention after an accession. Such declaration shall be deposited at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; this Ministry shall forward, through diplomatic channels, a certified copy to each of the Contracting States.
The Convention will enter into force as between the acceding State and the State that has declared its acceptance of the accession on the first day of the third calendar month after the deposit of the declaration of acceptance. | Hague Conference on Private International Law | International treaty |
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| 1980 | ||
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | If a Contracting State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law are applicable in relation to matters dealt with in this Convention, it may at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession declare that this Convention shall extend to all its territorial units or only to one or more of them and may modify this declaration by submitting another declaration at any time.
Any such declaration shall be notified to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and shall state expressly the territorial units to which the Convention applies. | Hague Conference on Private International Law | International treaty |
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| 1980 | ||
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. | United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court | International treaty |
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| 1998 | ||
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Crime 2000, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. For each State or regional economic integration organization ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to this Protocol after the deposit of the fortieth instrument of such action, this Protocol shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit by such State or organization of the relevant instrument or on the date this Protocol enters into force pursuant to paragraph 1 of this article, whichever is the later. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2000 | ||
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Crime 2000, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. After the expiry of five years from the entry into force of this Protocol, a State Party to the Protocol may propose an amendment and file it with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall thereupon communicate the proposed amendment to the States Parties and to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention for the purpose of considering and deciding on the proposal. The States Parties to this Protocol meeting at the Conference of the Parties shall make every effort to achieve consensus on each amendment. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted and no agreement has been reached, the amendment shall, as a last resort, require for its adoption a two-thirds majority vote of the States Parties to this Protocol present and voting at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 2000 | ||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 4. Parents or guardians, as the case may be, have the right to provide for the religious and moral education of their children or wards that is in accord with their own convictions. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1969 | ||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee shall publish its report after it has been considered by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government. | Organization of African Unity | Regional treaty |
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| 1990 | ||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State Parties shall make the Committee’s reports widely available to the public in their own countries. | Organization of African Unity | Regional treaty |
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| 1990 | ||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Every child, whatever his parentage, has the right to the protection that his status as a minor requires from his family, society and the State. Every child has the right to grow under the protection and responsibility of his parents; save in exceptional, judicially-recognized circumstances, a child of young age ought not to be separated from his mother. Every child has the right to free and compulsory education, at least in the elementary phase, and to continue his training at higher levels of the educational system. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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| 1988 | ||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | With a view to ensuring the exercise of the right to equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women workers with family responsibilities and between such workers and other workers, the Parties undertake:
2. to provide a possibility for either parent to obtain, during a period after maternity leave, parental leave to take care of a child, the duration and conditions of which should be determined by national legislation, collective agreements or practice; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 1996 | ||
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 | ||
SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia 2002, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognising basic services such as education, health care, with special attention to the prevention of diseases and malnutrition, as the cornerstone of child survival and development, States Parties shall pursue a policy of development and a National Programme of Action that facilitate the development of the child. The policy shall focus on accelerating the progressive universalization of the child's access to the basic services and conditions. | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | Regional treaty |
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| 2002 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1 Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that a legal person can be held liable for an offence established in accordance with this Convention, committed for its benefit by any natural person, acting either individually or as part of an organ of the legal person, who has a leading position within the legal person, based on:
(b) an authority to take decisions on behalf of the legal person; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1 Each Party shall ensure, in accordance with its internal law, that persons subject to criminal proceedings for any of the offences established in accordance with this Convention may have access to the programmes or measures mentioned in Article 15, paragraph 1, under conditions which are neither detrimental nor contrary to the rights of the defence and to the requirements of a fair and impartial trial, and particularly with due respect for the rules governing the principle of the presumption of innocence. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1 Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conduct is criminalised:
(b) engaging in sexual activities with a child where:
– use is made of coercion, force or threats; or
– abuse is made of a recognised position of trust, authority or influence over the child, including within the family; or
– abuse is made of a particularly vulnerable situation of the child, notably because of a mental or physical disability or a situation of dependence. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following circumstances, in so far as they do not already form part of the constituent elements of the offence, may, in conformity with the relevant provisions of internal law, be taken into consideration as aggravating circumstances in the determination of the sanctions in relation to the offences established in accordance with this Convention:
(c) the offence was committed against a particularly vulnerable victim; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following circumstances, in so far as they do not already form part of the constituent elements of the offence, may, in conformity with the relevant provisions of internal law, be taken into consideration as aggravating circumstances in the determination of the sanctions in relation to the offences established in accordance with this Convention:
(d) the offence was committed by a member of the family, a person cohabiting with the child or a person having abused his or her authority; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Each Party shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to criminalise the intentional proposal, through information and communication technologies, of an adult to meet a child who has not reached the age set in application of Article 18, paragraph 2, for the purpose of committing any of the offences established in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1.a, or Article 20, paragraph 1.a, against him or her, where this proposal has been followed by material acts leading to such a meeting. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 5 Each Party may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, declare that it reserves the right to limit the application of paragraph 4 of this article, with regard to offences established in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1.b, second and third indents, to cases where its national has his or her habitual residence in its territory. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1 The Parties shall co-operate with each other, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, and through the application of relevant applicable international and regional instruments, arrangements agreed on the basis of uniform or reciprocal legislation and internal laws, to the widest extent possible, for the purpose of:
(b) protecting and providing assistance to victims; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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