Legislative history on the convention on the rights of the child

Published by: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2007
Via: UNPulse

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched a new publication which aims to serve as a research tool for children's rights advocates based on the major international treaty guiding their work. The two-volume Legislative History on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, lists among the many major advances ushered in by the Convention recognition, for the first time in a human rights treaty, of the differential and often discriminatory impact that national legislation, policies, attitudes and cultural traditions can have on girls.

(V1: http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/history_crc1.pdf
V2: http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/history_crc2.pdf)