This documentation center of the Bureau International Catholique de l’Enfance (BICE) is a resource center on the themes of education, violence in all its forms, justice for children and resilience.
Over the years, BICE has built up solid experience and recognized expertise in these areas. Projects and programs implemented within its network of members on these subjects have led to the production of several practical tools following a process of capitalization and knowledge management.
The present documentation center offers resources relating to these themes. It also includes information on training courses organized and materials developed by BICE and its member organizations.
These in-house resources are complemented by relevant publications from UN mechanisms for promoting, protecting and monitoring the implementation of children’s rights, including the Human Rights Council, treaty bodies, special procedures and UN agencies. It also includes documents produced by civil society organizations.
Objectives
The purpose of this documentation center is to :
- Serve as a knowledge-sharing space to increase the critical mass around the protection of children’s rights,
- Encourage the capitalization of experiences and practices,
- Serve as local, national and international advocacy and awareness-raising tools,
- Encourage research by state and non-state institutions, including research centers and universities,
- Offer a space for continuing education.
BICE and its network of member organizations are convinced that the effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, as well as other relevant instruments, requires committed mobilization, greater dissemination of norms and standards, and well-resourced action plans.
Sharing and disseminating knowledge
The documentation center is freely accessible to member organizations of the BICE network and to children’s rights organizations. The database is also open to all other state and non-state institutions, including universities and research centers.
This documentation center is also a call to action. It contributes, in its own way, to the training of actors for greater effectiveness in the service of children’s rights. It offers a wide range of tools for awareness-raising, advocacy, research, dialogue, monitoring and more. It is also a crucible for celebrating progress, however small, and continuing to work harder for the respect, protection and realization of children’s rights.
