Documentation Materials

Violence against children: Physical Punishment

The Committee on the Rights of the Child defines ‘physical’ or ‘corporal’punishment as: "…any...

children's freedom of association

Children, like adults, have the right to participate in protests and form or join associations....

CRC article 5: Parental guidance and the child's evolving capacities

States Parties shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents or, where...

CRC article 35: Sale,Trafficking and abduction

What does article 35 say? States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and...

What is child sex tourism?

According to ECPAT International, there are two types of sexual exploitation of under-18s in...

children’s rights regarding freedom from sexual abuse and exploitation

Millions of girls and boys worldwide are being used in prostitution, images of child sexual abuse (...

Sexual Exploitation of Children

According to Save the Children, sexual exploitation refers to “the abuse of a position of...

Children and slavery

A definition of slavery first appeared in an international agreement in the League of Nations...

State violence against children

Quite simply, State violence is violence enacted by the State or its subsidiary bodies , for...

Forms of violence: State neglect

Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child requires States to protect the child...

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