Support to Constitution Building

Material on Children's Rights

• Human Rights Watch Children in the Ranks: The Maoists' Use of Child Soldiers in Nepal
• Stateless Refugee Children from Bhutan Living in Nepal
  Testimony of Bill Frelick to a Joint Briefing for the Congressional Children's Caucus and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on the Status of Stateless Children
• Second Report of Nepal to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child 2004 (was due 1997) - available on this website click here
• National Alliance of Child Rights Organizations Alternative Report to Committee on Rights of the Child (both pdf and Word versions)
• National Human Rights Commission, report on violation of children's rights during the armed conflict राष्ट्रिय मानव अधिकार आयोग, बालअधिकार एकाइबाट मिति २०६२ आषाढ १७ गतेदेखि श्रावण १० गतेसम्म सशस्त्र द्वन्द्वमा बाल अधिकार विषयमा केन्द्रित रही गरिएको बाल अधिकार अनुगमनको स्थलगत प्रतिवेदन
• Nepal: The Maoists' conflict and impact on the rights of the child An alternate report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on Nepal's 2nd periodic report Asian Centre for Human Rights
• Gauri Pradhan Juvenile Justice in Nepal With a Reference to CWIN's Experience Working on Children in Conflict with the Laws
• Save the Children A Life Without Basic Service - Street Children Say
• Material on child trafficking - see
  http://www.savethechildren.net/nepal/key_issues/trafficking.html
• Terre des Hommes Child Trafficking in Nepal (2003)
• Amnesty International "Children caught in the conflict" (2005) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA310542005

• Irish government's proposal to change Constitution (2007) to include material on child rights http://www.childrensrights.ie/pubs/Referedumpressrel190207.doc
• Advice of the Ombudsman for Children on the proposed referendum on children's Rights (also on Ireland)
• Protecting the Rights of Children in Conflict with the Law" World Organisation Against Torture
  http://www.omct.org/pdf/cc/2005/Protect_the_rights_of_children_in_conflict_with_the_law.pdf
• "Children's rights" from the South African Constitution Court's website - gives information about how the rights under the Constitution are being implemented.
• Child Justice in South Africa: Children's rights under construction (Conference Report) "The purpose of the conference was to take stock of the situation relating to the criminal justice system for children in conflict with the law."
• Every year UNICEF produces The State of the World's Children, with a different emphasis; the 2007 volume "examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls".