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Useful links

For more information on children's rights, please see the links below. 

International Law

• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
• European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

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Publications

• What about us? Children's Rights in the European Union: Next Steps, EURONET
• Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, Communication from the European Commission
• UN Secretary-General's Report on Violence against Children
• World Report on Violence against Children
• A World Fit For Children, UN General Assembly Resolution
• Visible Evidence-Forgotten Children, Save the Children
• Rewrite the Future, Save the Children
• World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation, The World Bank
• Child Poverty in Perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries, UNICEF
• The State of the World's Children 2007, UNICEF

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Other Useful Websites

• Ghent Children's Rights Centre

United Nations

• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
• UNICEF
• UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• UNICEF Regional website for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

European Union

• The European Parliament
• The European Commission
• The Council of the EU
• The EU Presidencies Troika (Germany, Portugal, Slovenia)
• Council of Europe Programme: Building a Europe for and with Children
• ChildONEurope

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