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1. International: United Nations
- UN General Assembly and child rights
· sub page on Special Session
- Security Council and Child Rights
- Human Right Council and child rights
· How individuals can use mechanisms of the UN to submit complaints
- Special Procedures
- UN Treaty bodies
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
· subpage on Individual complaints mechanism campaign
Other relevant UN bodies:
- ILO and its two Conventions on child labour
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime
- The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
2. Regional mechanims
Introduction
Europe:
- Council of Europe
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Committee of Social Rights
- The European Union and child rights
- Glossary for European human rights system
Africa: African Union
- African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
- African Commission on Human Rights
- African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights
- Glossary for the African human rights system
Americas and the Caribbean: The Organisation of American States
2.2. Other Regional bodies/groupings:
- Mercosur
- The Arab League
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
3. National
- General Measures of Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- National Plans of Action
- Children's Ombudsmen (Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children)
- Case law database introduction
Other related pages
Further information
International mechanisms for children's rights - INDEX
Child rights complaints mechanisms
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