Resource Center
Please use and share the following resources, and reach out if you have questions or suggestions.

This teaching guide accompanies a video of a panel discussion exploring why and how we need to transform medical research to protect and benefit people and animals.

International Labor Relations Board
Use these three reports that provide data about child and forced labor around the world to help combat the exploitation of vulnerable people.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This interactive resource from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides an overview of the research around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). It highlights the importance of prevention and trauma-informed approaches in order to create communities where children and youth can be free from harm and thrive.

Karen Attiah
This article in The Washington Post describes why the US should ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and obstacles to its ratification.

Alain Serres, Aurelia Fronty, and Helen Mixter
This children's picture book provides an overview of children's rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child—for children and adults alike.

Ton Liefaard and Jaap E. Doek
This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989. It offers state of the art knowledge on the functions, challenges and limitations of the CRC in domestic, regional and international children’s rights litigation.