Rights of the Child

Alistair MacDonald QC St Philips Chambers; Past Co-Chair, Association of Lawyers for Children

• Introduction • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol I; United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol II • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • UN Convention against Torture • UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination • UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • UN Convention against Discrimination in Education • ILO Minimum Age Convention • ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention • Geneva Convention III, Geneva Convention IV • The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction • The European Convention on Human Rights • Human Rights Act 1998 • Revised European Social Charter • Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union • UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice • UN Standard Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty • Standard Rules on the Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities • UN Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency • UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children • UNCRC General Comment 1 • The Aims of Education; UNCRC General Comment 2 • The Role of Independent Human Rights Institutions; UNCRC General Comment 3 • HIV/AIDS and the Rights of the Child; UNCRC General Comment 4 • Adolescent Health; UNCRC General Comment 5 • General Measures of Implementation for the CRC; UNCRC General Comment 6 • Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children outside their Country of Origin; UNCRC General Comment 7 • Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood; UNCRC General Comment 8 • The Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and other Cruel or Degrading forms of Punishment; UNCRC General Comment 9 • The Rights of Children with Disabilities; UNCRC General Comment 10 • Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice; UNCRC General Comment 11 • Indigenous Children and the Rights under the Convention; UNCRC General Comment 12 • The Right of the Child to be Heard; UNCRC General Comment 13 • The Right of the Children to Freedom from all forms of Violence.