Child Protection Model Law: Best Practices-Protection of Children from Neglect, Abuse, Maltreatment

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2013

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The final version of the Model Law incorporates international standards and best practices of child protection, based on the protection measures of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and its two optional protocols from the year 2000, the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and pornography (OPSC) and the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). Over the course of the project, more than 400 national laws relating to child protection from over 150 countries were researched and analyzed to identify best practices

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Best practices, Exploitation, Neglect, policy, Legislation, Child maltreatment, International Resources

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