Further Conventions related to Children’s rights

Regional conventions

• 1994 Inter-American Convention on forced diappearance of persons
• 1996 European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights
• 1999 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• 2007 Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

Education and Development

• 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development
  
• 1990 World Declaration on Education For All

Children and War, International Humanitarian Law

• 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
• 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
• 1977 Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
• 1977 Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
• 2007 Paris Principles and Paris Commitments on recruitment and use of children in hostilities

Children and Non-discrimination

• 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
• 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Declaration

Other Texts

• 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• 1990 United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
• 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption