• Convention on the Rights of the Child, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, entered into force on 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49
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• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, 25 May 2000, entered into force on 12 February 2002
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• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, entered into force on 18 January 2002
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• European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights, Strasbourg, 25 January 1996, entered into force on 1st July 2000
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• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/24.9/49 (1990), entered into force 29 November 1999
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• American Convention on Human Rights, Signed at the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica, 22 November 1969
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• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966 entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 49
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• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966 entry into force 3 January 1976, in accordance with article 27
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• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998
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• Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
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• Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
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• Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
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• Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
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• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.
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• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 8 June 1977.
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• Charter of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg (1945)
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• Declaration of the Rights of the Child, United Nations General Assembly, 20 November 1959 [Resolution 1386(XIV)]
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• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948
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• Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2391 (XXIII) of 26 November 1968, entered into force on 11 November 1970, in accordance with article VIII
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• Principles of International Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, General Assembly resolution 3074 (XXVIII) of 3 December 1973
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• European Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes, Strasbourg, 25 January 1974
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• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Strasbourg, 26 November 1987
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• Protocole n°1 to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Strasbourg, 4 November 1993
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• Protocole n°2 to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Strasbourg, 4 November 1993
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• Statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, 25 May 1993
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• International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens responsible for genocide and other such violations committed in the territory of neighbouring States, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994, November 1994
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• Resolution 1329 on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Adopted by the Security Council at its 4240th meeting, on 30 November 2000
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• ILO Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, C182, Date of adoption: 17 June 1999
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• Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/552)] 57/190. Rights of the child
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