A Child's Right to Rights /
Written from the perspective of a child, this book explains in simple text many of the rights that are found in the United Nations' Convention of the Rights of the Child: from the right to play, to learn, and to share thoughts freely to protection from harmful work, violence, and exploitation. Young readers will learn that each one of them is important, but together these rights help kids everywhere live healthy and happy lives. This beautifully illustrated book contains drawings and paintings created by children from around the world-the winners of an international drawing competition titled 'Kids for Human Rights'- illustrating each of the rights.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : a commentary
Adopted in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been vital in establishing the rights of children across the globe. This volume provides a detailed analysis and evaluation of each of the 40 articles which comprise this Convention and examines the optional protocols that have developed since its inception.
Convention on the Rights of the Child United Nations, 2019
The Convention on the Rights of the Child /
In November 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) after nearly a decade of debate over its merits and provisions. Less than a year later, it was ratified by twenty countries, the threshold number required for implementation. No other UN human rights treaty was ever ratified so rapidly and with such enthusiasm. In this carefully researched book, Lawrence J. LeBlanc provides a historical overview of the origins of the CRC and children's rights work, places the issues and problems into the broader perspective of the United Nations lawmaking process, provides an in-depth analysis of the children's rights enumerated in the treaty, and projects the prospects for effective implementation of the CRC. He outlines why the convention comes at the best possible time and how it represents the single most important international document on children's rights. With the CRC's broad ratification, its political significance continues to grow. Close cooperation among the UN monitoring committee, UNICEF and other UN agencies, and nongovernmental organizations make it difficult for governments to ignore their pledges. Although the conditions under which many of the world's children are living give rise to legitimate concern about the CRC's real impact, LeBlanc demonstrates that our greatest hope comes from working to reduce the thin line between commitment and clich#65533;.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child /
This book provides an overview of the drafting process of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was unanimously adopted by the General Assembly of the UN on 20 November 1989.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child /
In 2014 the world's most widely ratified human rights treaty, one specifically for children, reached the milestone of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in the time since then it has entered a new century, reshaping laws, policies, institutions and practices across the globe, along with fundamental conceptions of who children are, their rights and entitlements, and society's duties and obligations to them. Yet despite its rapid entry into force worldwide, there are concerns that the Convention remains a high-level paper treaty without the traction on the ground needed to address ever-continuing violations of children's rights. This book, based on papers from the conference '25 Years CRC' held by the Department of Child Law at Leiden University, draws together a rich collection of research and insight by academics, practitioners, NGOs and other specialists to reflect on the lessons of the past 25 years, take stock of how international rights find their way into children's lives at the local level, and explore the frontiers of children's rights for the 25 years ahead.
In the child's best interest : a primer on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the child
