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    The document discusses children's human rights and other UN human rights conventions and agreements. It states that children enjoy the same rights as adults but need special protection due to being minors. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets individual rights for those under 18 to develop freely without abuse. More countries have ratified this convention than any other UN human rights treaty. The UN has also helped negotiate over 80 other human rights treaties dealing with vulnerable groups like women, children, minorities and indigenous people to help create a global human rights culture. Some key conventions discussed prohibit genocide, torture, racial discrimination, and discrimination against women.

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    The document discusses children's human rights and other UN human rights conventions and agreements. It states that children enjoy the same rights as adults but need special protection due to being minors. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets individual rights for those under 18 to develop freely without abuse. More countries have ratified this convention than any other UN human rights treaty. The UN has also helped negotiate over 80 other human rights treaties dealing with vulnerable groups like women, children, minorities and indigenous people to help create a global human rights culture. Some key conventions discussed prohibit genocide, torture, racial discrimination, and discrimination against women.

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    All

    human beings are born

    Every child has the right to:


     name and a a nationality;  rotection from all p forms of violence, including sexual exploitation; education;  freedom of thought.

    Do children enjoy human rights?


    Children enjoy the same rights as adults. However, because they are minors, they need special protection. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, sets forth the individual rights that any person under 18 years of age requires to develop his or her full potential, free from hunger and want, neglect and abuse. More countries have ratied the Child Rights Convention than any other human rights treaty in history all the 192Member States of the UN had become State Parties to the Convention as of May 2006.

    FREE
    and EQUAL in dignity

    What other human rights laws and agreements have been negotiated by the UN?
    The United Nations has helped negotiate over 80 human rights treaties and declarations, dealing with the rights of women, children, disabled persons, minorities, indigenous people and other vulnerable groups. Together, these agreements have helped create a culture of human rights throughout the world, proving to be a powerful tool in curbing abuses.

    Some human rights conventions :


     he Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide T (1948) denes genocide as the committing of certain acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group; Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) holds States responsible for preventing torture and makes it legally punishable;

    The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or 

    The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of  Racial Discrimination (1966) denes racial discrimination as any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other eld of public life, and obliges States to eliminate racial discrimination; The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination  against Women (1979) is often described as an international bill

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    Everything About the United Nations

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