“Rebirth” performance by school children from Collège du Léman and the International School of Geneva, Campus des Nations, and Children’s appeals (from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Uganda) at World Day Against Child Labour event in June 2017. Photo © Crozet / Pouteau
Resources
General Assembly Resolutions
Economic and Social Council Resolutions
Secretary General’s Reports
International Instruments
- Convention on the Rights of the Child: Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000) [A/RES/54/263]
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000) [A/RES/55/25]
- Recommendation on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages (1965) [A/RES/2018 (XX)]
- Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages (1962) [A/RES/1763 (XVII)]
- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956)
- Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 (1953)
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949) [A/RES/317 (IV)]
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- Slavery Convention (1926)
- Additional Declarations and Conventions on Human Rights
International Labour Organization Conventions
Related websites
UN.GIFT
Children and Armed Conflict
UNiTE
OHCHR
- Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
- Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
- Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children
- Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography