Publications and documentation

Annual Reports
See Annual Report

Reports and Monographic Studies on the rights of children and adolescents

To date, the Office has published the following monographic studies relating to rights of the child:

• Minors: studies of the conditions of minors in care centres and detention centres, and recommendations the implementation of protective reforming functions (1991)
• Legal and care situation of the mentally ill in Spain (1991)
• Safety and Accident Prevention in children’s areas (1997)
• Violence in Schools: peer abuse in compulsory secondary education (2000)
• The first year of the law regulating the criminal responsibility of minors (2002)
• Schooling students of immigrant origin in Spain: descriptive analysis and empirical study, Volume I (2003)
• Schooling students of immigrant origin in Spain: descriptive analysis and empirical study, Volume II (2003)
• Report on legal assistance for foreigners in Spain (2005)
• Violence in Schools: Peer abuse in compulsory secondary education 1999-2006 (2007)
• Specialist Children’s Homes for Minors with Behavioural Disorders and Special Needs” (2009)
• Television and internet programming and content: the opinion of minors on the protection of their rights (2010)
• The presence of democratic values in the educational process (2011)
• Minors or Adults. Procedures for determining age (2011)
• Update to ‘Human trafficking in Spain’ (October 2013)
• Free textbooks: programmes, grants, loans and reuse (November 2013)
• The hearing and the child’s best interest. Judicial review of protection measures and family processes (May 2014)

Legislation, documentation and other links of interest

• Child Rights Convention
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Observations made to Spain by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (1994, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2018)
• Spanish Constitution
• Organic Law 1/1996, on the legal protection of minors
• 2nd National Strategic Plan for Childhood
• UNICEF
• ILO
• UNHCR
• International Organization for Migration