The United Nations Model Strategies and Practical
Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children
in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
(“Model Strategies”) are a new set of international
standards and norms adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on 18 December 2014 with resolution
A/RES/69/194.
The “Model Strategies” were developed by an
intergovernmental expert group during a meeting held in
Bangkok in February 2014, with the substantive support of
UNODC, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary
General on Violence against Children, UNICEF, OHCHR
and several NGOs. The “Model Strategies” are grounded
on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other
international human rights instruments, as well as on
several United Nations standards and norms in the field
of crime prevention and criminal justice.