Resources on Child Rights

Domestic (India)

  • Indian legislations related to children can be found here
  • NCPCR reports can be accessed here
  • Supreme Court judgments can be accessed here
  • High Court judgments can be accessed here
  • National Child Labour Project Scheme (Revised Guidelines) can be accessed here
  • Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) (Revised) can be accessed here
  • Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme can be accessed here
  • National Policy on Education, 1986 (modified in 1992) can be accessed here
  • Draft National Education Policy, 2019 can be accessed here
  • Adoption Regulations, 2017 can be accessed here
  • Model Guidelines for Foster Care, 2016 can be accessed here

International

  • The text of UDHR can be accessed here
  • The text of UNCRC can be accessed here
  • Resources on UNCRC can be accessed here
  • ILO Conventions and Recommendations on Child Labour can be accessed here
  • ILO publications on child labour can be accessed here
  • Publications of UNICEF can be accessed here

Committee on the rights of the child

  • General comment No. 1 (2001): The Aims of Education
  • General comment No. 2 (2002): The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child
  • General comment No. 3 (2003): HIV/AIDS and the Rights of the Child
  • General comment No. 4 (2003): Adolescent Health and Development in the Context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • General comment No. 5 (2003): General measures of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • General comment No. 6 (2005): Treatment of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside their Country of Origin
  • General comment No. 7 (2005): Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood
  • General comment No. 8 (2006): The Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or Degrading Forms of Punishment
  • General comment No. 9 (2006): The rights of children with disabilities
  • General comment No. 10 (2007): Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice
  • General comment No. 11 (2009): Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention [on the Rights of the Child]
  • General comment No. 12(2009): The right of the child to be heard
  • General comment No. 13(2011): The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence
  • General comment No. 14(2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration
  • General comment No. 15(2013) on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24)
  • General comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights
  • General comment No. 17 (2013) on the right of the child to rest, leisure, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts
  • General comment No. 18 (2014) Joint general recommendation/general comment No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices
  • General comment No. 19 (2016) on public budgeting for the realization of children’s rights
  • General comment No. 20 (2016) on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence
  • General comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations
  • Joint general comment No. 3 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 22 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration
  • Joint general comment No. 4 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return*
  • General comment No. 24 (2019) on children’s rights in the child justice system
  • General comments of all human rights treaty bodies can be accessed here (Vol. 1) and here (Vol. 2)