DCI's Documentation Centre is unique and serves as a central collecting point of information published worldwide on children's rights issues. The collection is vast, covering issues such as child soldiers, sexual exploitation, child labour, street children, children in conflict with the law, child maltreatment and juvenile justice .

DCI's Documentation Centre was created as a means of raising awareness about children's rights at the international level. Since its inception in 1987, the collection has grown to a total of over 17,000 individually indexed items. It is accessible to the general public and often used by researchers.

The collection is multilingual and composed of articles, case studies and reports from journals and serial publications, monographs, magazines, newsletters, newspaper clippings, books and official documents (UN system and individual governments).

Access the Database

Journalists, students, members of international NGOs, children's rights experts, and many others regularly visit the Documentation Centre, which is located at:

DCI International Secretariat’s Offices
1 rue de Varembé
1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Tel.: (+41 22) 734 0558
Fax: (+41 22) 740 1145.

Open to the public:
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 12:00

Documentation requests can also be made by: E-mail:
[email protected]

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