BACKGROUND RESOURCES ON CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

 

Children's Rights Handout

 

The Convention on the Rights of the Child 

http://www.unicef.org/crc/index_index.html

http://www.ohchr.org/english/countries/ratification/11.htm  Signatures and ratifications of the convention 

 

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

http://untreaty.un.org/ENGLISH/bible/englishinternetbible/partI/chapterIV/treaty21.asp

 

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

http://untreaty.un.org/ENGLISH/bible/englishinternetbible/partI/chapterIV/treaty22.asp

 

Child Rights in Egypt

Egypt Profile

The Status of Child Rights in Egypt

Arab Republic of Egypt, UNICEF, Status of Childhood and Motherhood in Egypt: Rights based Analysis, Cairo: UNICEF, 2003.

The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood

 http://www.nccm.org.eg/

 

Child Labor   

Azer, A; Gobashi, Iskandar; Naggar, N; Riffaat N, Skater, B; Community and Institutional Development Inc. Eg/2002/801: Assessment Report on The Children at Risk Community Monitoring Mechanism.

 

International Labour Organization. Combating Child Labour In The Soccer Ball Industry In Pakistan From Stitching To School. International Program on The Elimination of Child Labour. (Electronic Version). 

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/download/2004_soccerball_en.pdf

  

International Labour Organization. The International programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)  

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec

 

International Labour Organization, ILO Declaration On Fundamental Principles At Work  

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/declaris/DECLARATIONWEB.INDEXPAGE 

 

UNICEF: Protection: Child Labour, Child Labour Versus Child Work. 

http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_childlabour.html

 

UNICEF: Evaluation and Good Practices. 

http://www.unicef.org/evaluation/index_evaluation.html

 

The World Bank: Child Labor. 

http://www.worldbank.org/childlabor