Children’s Rights: International and National Laws and Practices
The Library of Congress has launched a series of multinational, comparative legal studies on the rights of children.
"Children’s Rights examines sixteen nations, across five continents: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Iran,
Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, and the United
Kingdom (England and Wales). For each nation, the study focuses on the
domestic laws and policies that affect child health and social welfare,
education and special needs, child labor and exploitation, sale and
trafficking of children, and juvenile justice. Children’s Rights also lists which pertinent international treaties the nation has ratified and implemented."
The reports, as well as an overview (providing a summary of relevant global and regional legal instruments, including
human-rights related instruments and international agreements on
child protection and placement), are available in both html and pdf format, with footnotes and hyperlinks. The overview and the country reports, as they become available, can be accessed from the project's main page.
