LEGAL INSTRUMENTS


Consider the ratification of or accession to any relevant additional international and regional instruments to strengthen the protection and rights of children in armed conflict, if not done already, and ensure full compliance with such instruments.

  • The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • The Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of children in Armed Conflict 
  • Additional Protocol I and Additional Protocol II of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions

  • The ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour 
  • The Statute of the International Criminal Court 
  • The Hague Convention on Intercountry adoption,
  • The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 
  • The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol
  • The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
  • The Kampala Convention
  • The Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth