Sourcebook on International Children's Rights

Published: 6 October 2009

  • PEOPLE

    E. M. Belser
    K. Hanson
    Alexandra Hirt
    Counsel

  • Details

    Number of pages
    613 pages
    Publisher
    Stämpfli Verlag
    Language
    English
    Price
    CHF 49.00
    ISBN number
    978-3-7272-9668-0

This collection of basic international instruments dealing with children's rights contains international conventions, declarations, recommendations and other documents specifically applicable to children. Besides the Convention on the Rights of the Child, its two Optional Protocols and the most significant documents issued by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, it also includes international instruments related to private international law, child labour, education, juvenile justice and children victims of trafficking. In addition, the collection incorporates the International Bill of Human Rights, the un Millennium Declaration and key regional human rights instruments which are all equally important for interpreting children's rights.

1st edition, 613 pages, soft cover, CHF 49, ISBN 978-3-7272-9668-0, Stämpfli Verlag, Berne 2009. In english.

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