The CRC is concerned with protecting children from injury and providing disabled children adequate protection. Article 2 states that the rights set forth in the Convention must be applied ...

1.1 General International Instruments Pertaining to the Rights of the Child The Convention on the Rights of the Child provides in its Article2 that States parties must respect the rights in the ...

Queen Rania of Jordan opened the summit, recalling that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights convention in history but is hardly enforced on an equal ...

Still, 600,000 Rohingya are living in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. As of March 31, 2024, there are 978,003 stateless ...

Genocide has left thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza dead, disabled, or orphaned, with no access to education or ...

UNICEF is the UN organisation with the job of protecting the rights of every child, everywhere in the world. In 1989 the United Nations Convention Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was created to ...

Children need additional rights because they need extra protection. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international document that sets out all of the rights ...

Council of Europe joins global celebration of Safer Internet Day 2025 For the 10th consecutive year, the Council of Europe is ...

France has acceded to all international texts which protect and promote children’s rights, first and foremost the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (PDF 52.9 KB), which it signed ...

Nearly half of Japanese adults have never heard of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to a survey by nongovernmental organization Save the Children Japan. “Whether people ...

This was the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. On the same day in 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the ...