Rights of the Child

Children's rights are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. (Not to be confused with Youth Rights). 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." Children's rights includes their right to association with both parents, human identity as well as the basic needs for physical protection, food, universal state-paid education, health care, and criminal laws appropriate for the age and development …

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DCI: Defence for Children · 23 October 2024 English

The 2024 Conference will assess the implementation of the roadmap, while looking ahead to the next five years of implementation of the Global Study. [...] To this end, the Special …

more timely, as the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has launched the process for its next General Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child CONTACT For more information about this event EFFECTIVE REMEDIES The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has taken a monumental step by dedicating


Law Council of Australia · 21 October 2024 English

If Part 2 of Codes Schedule 1 to the Bill is to remain (noting the Government agreed Amend Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Bill to empower to this …

with Article 16 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.38 Exclusion of health service providers Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)). 38 Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened for signature 20 November 1989, 1577


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 17 October 2024 English

The impact assessment (IA) effectively substantiates the need for a recast of the Child Sexual Abuse Directive, to expand the definitions of offences, and introduce higher penalties and more specific …

treatment or punishment (Article 4), and the rights of the child (Article 24), owing to the stricter measures


Amnesty International · 16 October 2024 English

In this submission, Amnesty International raises concern about the ongoing crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly; arbitrary detention and unfair trials; enforced disappearance and …

Discrimination; and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, Iran has failed to fully incorporate


Odysseus Academic Network · 16 October 2024 English

Although the content of the pact was discussed during three years (September 2020 until December 2023), the bulk of the negotiations took place at the end 2023 after the Council …

result of years of CJEU case law on the rights of the child. The Court has stressed that Article 24 of integrates the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into EU law (case V.M.A. , para 63)


Amnesty International · 15 October 2024 English

Amnesty International’s report ‘Unatainable right to housing’ is an analysis of people’s access to adequate housing in Slovakia. Accessibility and affordability of housing is a significant concern in Slovakia. To …

and General Comment 14. Committee of the rights of the child. and Guidelines for the Alternative Care


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 15 October 2024 English

From 2020 to June 2024, Glenn Micallef served as the head of the Secretariat of the Maltese Prime Minister, Robert Abela, as well as his adviser on EU affairs, and …

and implementing the EU strategy on the rights of the child, aimed at integrating children's rights between generations and protection of the rights of the child are enshrined in Article 3 of the Treaty Commission presented the EU strategy on the rights of the child in March 2021. The 2022 European Year of


UKTPO: UK Trade Policy Observatory · 14 October 2024 English

3 The new provisions complement established legal measures to combat the use of illegal labour (for example, forced labour, modern slavery and trafficking) in the production of goods and, in …

and Cultural Rights; The Convention on the Rights of the Child; The International Labour Organization’s


Amnesty International · 14 October 2024 English

This report documents how the two successive governments of President Duterte and President Marcos Jr. have weaponized digital tools, misinformation and a flawed anti-terrorism law to create a climate of …

Human Rights UNCRC UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 Amnesty International recognizes that and Article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).48 It includes the right to seek Article 12, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), in Article 24, recognize and protect


Amnesty International · 11 October 2024 English

Girls and young women in north-east Nigeria suffered horrific abuses in Boko Haram captivity, with many survivors then arbitrarily detained and subsequently neglected by the Nigerian authorities. Now, these girls …

reintegration, as required by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and


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