Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Logo the UNCRC. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. [4]
The United States has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); however, it remains the only United Nations member state to have not ratified it after Somalia ratified it in 2015. [1] The UNCRC aims to protect and promote the rights of all children around the world.
The CRC is one of the ten UN human rights treaty-based bodies. [4] The committee was created by the convention on 27 February 1991. [5] The committee is made up of 18 members from different countries and legal systems who are of 'high moral standing' and experts in the field of human rights.
The Children's Charter originated because the member states of the AU believed that the CRC missed important socio-cultural and economic realities particular to Africa. It emphasises the need to include African cultural values and experiences when dealing with the rights of the child in such as:
CategoryWatchlistBot, Watch category and/or template additions/removals, supports partial name matches and subcategories; PetScan , searches categories recursively. Will find subcategories that overlap with other categories, templates, etc. User:SuggestBot for suggested articles you might like to edit
What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."
This template can be used to indicate that the summary provided of another article in the tagged section is too long. Usage of this template will categorize the tagged article in Category:Articles containing overly long summaries, a hidden cleanup category; to suppress this categorization, use |nocat=y.