The Convention on the Rights of the Child was crafted to provide every child due

protection and better comforted life. The CRC mandates itself since then to fulfil this
noble dream of safeguarding rights of children around the world by adopting an
international legal framework known as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child strongly affirms that

every child has a right to education and this is fully supported in every country, including
the Philippine as manifested in our education policy and standard operating manuals for
educational institution. Since the purpose of education is to enable the child to develop
to his or her fullest possible potential and to learn respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms, appropriate knowledge and information dissemination regarding
this standards and policy must be inculcated to every teachers as well as parents.

Convention on the Child 21 National Plan of Child Friendly

Rights of the Child Action Philippines
The United The Philippine National The Philippine Plan of The Child-Friendly School
Nations Convention on Strategic Framework for Action aims at ending System, implemented by
the Rights of the Development the Violence the Philippine Government
Child (UNCRC) is a for CHildren or CHILD against Children in the with UNICEF support.
legally-binding 21 is a strategic country.
international framework for planning
agreement. programs and
interventions that
promote and safeguard
the rights of
Filipino children.
This strongly sets out Continue to utilizing a It foster a multi-sectoral Puts children at the center
the civil, political, life cycle approach and road map designed for of education and
economic, social and weaves in the rights the progressive encourages strong
cultural rights of of children. reduction of violence community participation.
every child, regardless against children.
of their race, religion or
abilities.
Persistent in calling out Children's health is the Harmonizes and Determined to save the
member-states for priority aspect which outlines the plans and children in the Philippines
determined realizes that health is a efforts of stakeholders and seeks to prioritize
consideration in signing critical and fundamental in the hope of across the various
and ratifying domestic element in children's addressing the factors strategic areas.
policies which are welfare. that cause violence
assent to the against children.
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Consistently perceived However, programs Make exigent efforts to Look after the children in
real risk and find ways cannot be implemented address the needs of residential care, children
in reducing vulnerability in isolation from the children in different in armed conflict and
 in harmful situations other component that settings especially disasters, children in
and against social, determines the safety violence against the situations of migration
psychological and and well being of most vulnerable including for trafficking
emotional insecurity children. Therefore, it children. purposes and children in
and distress. must be integrated into exploitative and
the overall plan for hazardous work
children's development. conditions.

The Convention went on to become the most widely ratified human rights treaty

in history and has helped transform children's lives in every country especially, those
whose children are always at the brink of threats and misery. Against the backdrop of a
changing world order and alongside with the ever evolving culture of poverty, the world
leaders came together and made a historic commitment to the world's children fostering
child’ foremost care must be enshrined all the time. They made a promise to every child
to protect and fulfil their rights, by adopting an international legal framework – the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.