UN documents

• United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children adapted for children and young people
  http://www.unicef.org/violencestudy/pdf/Study%20on%20Violence_Child-friendly.pdf

• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

• The Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents
  http://www.ecpat.net/WorldCongressIII/PDF

Regional instruments

• African Charter on the Rights and the Welfare of the Child
  http://www.africa-union.org/official_documents/Treaties

• The Rights of the Child in the Inter-american Human Rights system
  http://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Infancia2eng/Infancia2Toc.eng.htm

• Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse
  http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=201&CM=8&DF=&CL=ENG

• European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights
  http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/treaties/html/160.htm

International NGOs

• Child Rights Information Network, legislations in your country
  http://www.crin.org/violence/legal/index.asp