List of resolutions on issues related to child rights, which have been adopted by the Human Rights Council (non-exhaustive)

The following section provides a non-exhaustive list of recent resolutions related to child rights. For a full list of all the resolutions of the HRC, please refer to the OHCHR website.

Administration of justice

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Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice (A/HRC/RES/18/12)

Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice (A/HRC/RES/10/2)

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Alternative care

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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (A/HRC/RES/11/7)

Draft United Nations guidelines for the appropriate use and conditions of alternative care for children (A/HRC/RES/10/8)

Draft United Nations guidelines for the appropriate use and conditions of alternative care for children (A/HRC/RES/9/13)

Birth registration, right to nationality

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Children of incarcerated parents, parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed

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Panel on the human rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed (A/HRC/RES/22/11)

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Children working and/or living on the street

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Rights of the child: a holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street (A/HRC/RES/16/12)

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Education

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The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (A/HRC/RES/23/4)

Education as a tool to prevent racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (A/HRC/RES/22/34)

World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/RES/21/14)

The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (A/HRC/RES/20/7)

The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (A/HRC/RES/17/3)

United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (A/HRC/RES/16/1)

The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (A/HRC/RES/15/4)

World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of the plan of action for the second phase (A/HRC/RES/15/11)

Addressing attacks on school children in Afghanistan (A/HRC/RES/14/15)

United Nations declaration on human rights education and training (A/HRC/RES/13/15)

World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/RES/12/4)

United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (A/HRC/RES/10/28)

World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/RES/10/3)

The right to education (A/HRC/RES/8/4)

World Programme for Human Rights Education (A/HRC/RES/6/24)

United Nations declaration on human rights education and training (A/HRC/RES/6/10)

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Health

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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (A/HRC/RES/22/32)

Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (A/HRC/RES/21/6)

Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (A/HRC/RES/18/2)

The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS) (A/HRC/RES/16/28)

Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights: follow-up to Council resolution 11/8 (A/HRC/RES/15/17)

Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (A/HRC/RES/11/8)

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Migration

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Omnibus resolutions

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Rights of the Child (A/HRC/RES/19/37)

Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto (A/HRC/RES/10/14)

Right of the Child (A/HRC/RES/7/29)

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 Op to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure

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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (A/HRC/RES/17/18)

Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure (A/HRC/RES/13/3)

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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses (A/HRC/RES/23/5)

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: access to effective remedies for trafficked persons and their right to an effective remedy for human rights violations (A/HRC/RES/20/1)

Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (A/HRC/RES/17/1)

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons (A/HRC/RES/14/2)

Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (A/HRC/RES/8/12)

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Violence against children

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Rights of the child: the fight against sexual violence against children (A/HRC/RES/13/20)

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