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Children: Government Resources: Library Guide: International

Organisation

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

A body of experts that Monitors the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) 

"The Committee is a group of 11 individuals of high moral standing, integrity, impartiality and competence in matters of the rights and welfare of the child which are mandated to monitor and report on the fulfillment of child rights in Africa."

Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent. Established by the United Nations.

Publications

GZCD 494 E.UNES.06.DROI   Unesco.    Droits de l'enfant, éducation et VIH/sida   protéger les plus vulnérables = Rights of the child, education and HIV/AIDS : protect the most vulnerable /    [Paris :   United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization,   2006].

Conventions, charters, etc.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (website)

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (text)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. Legislative History of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. Volume I. Volume II. New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2007. 

G 68 FLI.CHIL   United Nations.    Convention on the Rights of the Child :   adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989.    [New York? :   UN,   1990?].

G 494 E.UNIC.91.CONV   Convention on the Rights of the Child.    New York :   United Nations,   1991.

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) (text)

G 63 ETS.90.CHIL   African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)    African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.    [Addis Ababa, Ethiopia :   Organization of African Unity,   1990?].

University of Pretoria. Centre for Child Law. Compendium on key international & African children's rights instruments. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press, 2018.

Reports

State of the world's children :   celebrating 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.    New York :   Unicef,   2009. G 494 E.UNIC.09.STAT

State of the world's children :   [celebrating 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child] : statistical tables    [New York, NY, USA] :   Unicef,   2009.    G 494 E.UNIC.09.STAT

Country reports

G 6873 E.LOCA.04.IMPL   Botswana.    Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child :   a response to the list of issues brought up during the consideration of the initial report of Botswana (CRC/C/51/ADD.9) /    [Gaborone?] :   Ministry of Local Government, Department of Social Services,   2004.

G 6873 E.LOCA.01.INIT   Botswana. Ministry of Local Government. Division of Social Welfare.    Initial report to the United Nations Committee for the Convention on the Rights of the Child :   May 2001.    Botswana :   Ministry of Local Government, Division of Social Welfare,   2001.

G 6651 E.PRES.08.COMB   Combined 1st, 2nd, & 3rd periodic report on the Convention of the Rights of the Child for the Gambia.    Banjul :   Republic of the Gambia,   [2008]

G 635 E.LABO.02.REPO   Eritrea.    Report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child /    Asmara :   Ministry of Labour and Human Welfare,   2002.

G 494 E.UNCR.04.SECO   Second periodic Kenya country report on implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1998-2004.    [Geneva?] :   United Nations,   [2004?]

G 494 E.UNCR.01.IMPL   Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child :   list of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the initial report of Lesotho (CRC/C/11/Add. 20).    [Geneva :   Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,   2001].

G 494 E.UNCR.01.CONS   United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child.    Consideration of reports submitted by states parties under article 44 of the convention :   concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child : Lesotho.    [Geneva :   Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,   2001].

G 6897 E.GEND.00.MALA   Malawi's initial CRC report to the United Nations /    [Lilongwe] :   Ministry of Gender, Youth and Community Services,   [2000]

G 688 E2 10/93   Burling, K    Rights on track :   introducing the Namibia country report under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child /    [Windhoek :   Ministry of Local Government and Housing   UNICEF,   1992?]

G 664 E.PRES.05.REPO   Sierra Leone.    Report of state parties, Sierra Leone :   country report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child /    [Freetown] :   Republic of Sierra Leone,   2005.

South Africa. Department of Social Development.  South Africa's second country report to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: (reporting period: May 2013 to May 2016.) [Pretoria: Department of Social Development, 2016]

South Africa. Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities. South Africa's periodic country report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: reporting period: January 1998-April 2013. Pretoria:  Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, 2013.

South Africa. Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities. The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child: South Africa’s Combined Second, Third and Forth Periodic State Party Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Reporting period: 1998 - June 2012). Pretoria: Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, October 2012.

G 68 E.WOME.12.UNCO   The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child :   South Africa's combined second, third and forth periodic state party report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child : (reporting period: 1998 – June 2012) /    Pretoria :   Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities,   [2012].

G 68 E.PRES.00.IMPL   Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child :   South Africa's supplement to the initial country report, January 2000 /    [Pretoria :   Government of National Unity],   2000.

G 68 E.PRES.99.FIRS   South Africa. National Children's Rights Committee.    United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child :   first supplementary report, South Africa /    [South Africa] :   National Children's Rights Committee,   1999.

G 68 E.WELF.97.INIT   South Africa    Initial country report, South Africa :   Convention on the Rights of the Child.    [Pretoria] :   Government of National Unity,   1997.

G 678 E.COMM.98.REVI   Tanzania. Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii, Wanawake na Watoto.    Revised initial report on implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the United Republic of Tanzania /    [Tanzania :   Ministry of Community Development, Women Affairs and Children,   1998].

G 6894 E.UNIC.02.ZAMB   Zambia's initial and first report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child /    [Lusaka] :   Govt. of the Republic of Zambia with support from UNICEF,   2002.

G 6891 E.UNIC.09.CELE   Celebrating 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Zimbabwe.    [Harare] :   UNICEF,   [2009]

G 6891 E3 8/93   Zimbabwe    Zimbabwe report to the Convention on the Rights of the Child /    [Harare? :   The Govt.],   1993.