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) Violence Against Children
ELIMINATING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN (2007)
UNICEF, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). (Arabic, English, French, Spanish)
http://www.ipu.org/english/handbks.htm#V_children
Jointly produced by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, this handbook provides
recommendations and examples of good practices to enable Members of Parliament to
follow up on the United Nations Secretary- General’s Study on Violence Against Children.
c) Child Protection
HANDBOOK: CHILD PROTECTION (2004)
UNICEF, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). (English, French, Hindi)
http://www.ipu.org/english/handbks.htm#child-prot
Jointly produced by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, this handbook covers a wide range of themes related
to child protection, including trafficking of children, violence against children, female genital
mutilation/cutting, the sexual exploitation of children, children and war, and juvenile justice. The handbook is a
catalyst for action, providing concrete examples of ways and means of building a protective environment for
children and for parliaments’ responses to the challenges of child protection.
d) Child Domestic Labour
LEGISLATIVE REFORM ON CHILD DOMESTIC LABOUR: A GENDER ANALYSIS (January 2008)
Legislative Reform Initiative Paper Series. Policy and Practice, UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/files/Leg_Reform_on_Child_Domestic_Labour.pdf
This study commissioned by Policy and Practice adopts a gender perspective to look
critically at the need for legislative reform in the area of child domestic labour. The paper
argues that laws and policies developed to help protect and prevent child domestic labour
cannot be developed in isolation from other laws that impact the issue. The paper analyses
the need for a holistic approach to law-making in this area and sets out a methodology to
create a legal policy and programme framework to regulate and protect the domestic child
worker. The framework does not pretend to be exhaustive but examines some critical
elements that should be integral to law-making in the field of child domestic labour. The paper concludes that
legislative reform to protect child domestic workers must not only consider the interrelatedness of issues affecting
the social, economic and health ramifications of child domestic work but also address gender discrimination,
making an anti-discrimination perspective critical to the examination of child domestic labour.
e) Child Marriage
CHILD MARRIAGE AND THE LAW (January 2008)
Legislative Reform Initiative Paper Series. Policy and Practice, UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/files/Child_Marriage_and_the_Law.pdf
This paper commissioned by Policy and Practice analyses the different legal frameworks
and human rights dimensions of child marriage within a feminist perspective. The paper
highlights the interconnectivity between international human rights law, constitutional
guarantees of gender equality and other gender-friendly laws in combating child marriage.
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