Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
Children and Emergencies
Children Associated with Armed Groups and Forces
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Articles 32 and 39.
- The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (2000)
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998) Article 8.
- ILO Covention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999)
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War or '4th Geneva Convention' (1949), Additional Protocol I and Additional Protocol II.
- United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Resolution 1612 (2005); Resolution 1539 (2004); Resolution 1460 (2003); Resolution 1379 (2001); Resolution 1314 (2000); Resolution 1261 (1999)
Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Article 38.
- Geneva Conventions relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War or '4th Geneva Convention' (1949), Additional Protocol I and Additional Protocol II.
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction or 'Mine Ban Convention' (1997)
- Further UN General Assembly Resolutions and Decisions on Disarmament
Refugee Children
- Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951)
- Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (1966)
Separated and Unaccompanied Children
- Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children outside their Country of Origin. General Comment no. 6 to the CRC (2005)
Small Arms and Light Weapons
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
- Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime or 'UN Firearms Protocol' (2001)
- The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects. UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/81 (2006)
- Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects or 'Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons' (1980)
- Further UN General Assembly Resolutions and Decisions on Disarmament
