Overview Factsheets

Child Protection - The Big Picture
A brief overview of issues relating to the well-being and protection of children, including forced and bonded labor, trafficking, sexual exploitation, armed conflict, and violence against children.  R
UNICEF

Children's Rights
An in-depth overview of children's rights, including child labor, child soldiers, refugee children, juvenile justice, and violence against children.  R
Human Rights Watch

Children's Rights - Brief Introduction
Children around the world suffer appalling abuses. In the past, this huge and largely voiceless population has fallen through the cracks in the international human rights arena. This is a brief introduction to children's human rights issues.  R
Human Rights Watch

Convention on the Rights of the Child - An Introduction
An introduction to the Convention - the most universally accepted human rights instrument in history.
UNICEF

Convention on the Rights of the Child - Overview
An overview of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  R
UNICEF

Introduction to Children's Rights
A brief introduction to children's human rights, from "Promises Broken", a HRW report assessing children's rights on the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  R
Human Rights Watch

A World Fit for Children - The Official Outcome Document of the UN Special Session on Children (2002)
The Special Session in 2002 culminated in the official adoption, by some 180 nations, of its outcome document, 'A World Fit for Children'. The new agenda for - and with - the world's children, including 21 specific goals and targets for the next decade.
UNICEF

Children's Human Rights: The Future Starts Here
A publication issued on the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, outlines Amnesty International's key concerns and recommendations on children's human rights.
Amnesty International USA

Children's Rights: A second chance
The past decade began with genuine optimism for the world's children. But what has happened since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)? This report looks at the impact that local, national and international policies and practices have had on children over the last decade.
Save the Children

Convention on the Rights of the Child
Introduction, overview, and full text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - the most universally accepted human rights instrument in history - ratified by every country in the world except two.
UNICEF

CRIN: Child Rights Information Network
A global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations (NGOs), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organisation (IGOs), educational institutions, and other child rights experts. The website is a major part of the work of CRIN, with an extensive collection of documents on children's issues.

Human Rights Watch - Children's Rights
HRW's child rights program, and website with factsheets and reports on children's rights and issues.
Human Rights Watch

Promises Broken
An assessment of children's rights on the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This report illustrate the troubling extent to which the international community has failed children.
Human Rights Watch

Save the Children (UK)
One of the leading international children and development organizations, based in the UK.

Save the Children (USA)
The U.S. member of the International Save the Children Alliance, an association of organizations that provide child-oriented emergency response, development assistance and advocacy of children's rights in more than 100 countries.

State of the World's Children 2004 - Girls' Education
The 2004 edition of the annual report on the world's children focuses on girls’ education as one of the most crucial issues facing the development community today. The report is a testimony to the prevailing gender disparities and to the toll girls’ exclusion from school takes on them, their families, communities and countries.
UNICEF

UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
The United Nations' agency mandated to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. The website contains in-depth information and resources on children and children's rights.

We the Children: Meeting the promises of the World Summit for Children
A landmark report issued by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The report assesses the progress made in meeting the commitments made to the children around the globe at the 1990 World Summit for Children. It also includes best practices and lessons learned, obstacles to progress, and a plan of action for building a world fit for children.
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General (Special Report)