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In 1993, UNICEF began its activity in Azerbaijan. In 2005, Azerbaijan and UNICEF signed a five-year country program. The country program for 2005-2009 was implemented in child protection, children's health and nutrition, children's education and youth health, and their development and participation. Also, UNICEF supports Azerbaijan in improving ...
The genre of children's literature took off, with a proliferation of humorous, child-oriented books attuned to the child's imagination. Lewis Carroll 's fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , published in 1865 in England, was a landmark in the genre; regarded as the first "English masterpiece written for children", its publication opened ...
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."
The Polish educationalist Janusz Korczak wrote of the rights of children in his book How to Love a Child (Warsaw, 1919); a later book was entitled The Child's Right to Respect (Warsaw, 1929). In 1917, following the Russian Revolution, the Moscow branch of the organization Proletkult produced a Declaration of Children's Rights. [12]
The child must be brought up in the consciousness that its talents must be devoted to the service of its fellow men. This text was endorsed by the League of Nations General Assembly on 26 November 1924 as the World Child Welfare Charter, and was the first human rights document approved by an inter-governmental institution. [ 1 ]
The first report was published in 1980, having been introduced by James P. Grant (the executive director of UNICEF at the time). [2] [3] Peter Adamson was the author of the report for 15 years. [4] The publication of the 1982–1983 The State of the World's Children report marked the start of the child survival revolution. [5]: 95
UNICEF is the successor of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund,and was created on 11 December 1946, in New York, by the U.N. Relief Rehabilitation Administration to provide immediate relief to children and mothers affected by World War II.
The objective of child trafficking is often forced child labour. [13] UNICEF estimates that, in 2011, 150 million children aged 5–14 in developing countries were involved in child labour. [23] Additionally, UNICEF stated that 2019 rates indicated that at least 100 million children would still be forced to work by 2020. [24]