Superior School of Commerce Nicolae Kretzulescu

Childrens Right

Teacher Coordinator:
Dorina Camelia Ierulescu

Student:
Vlad Nadina Florentina
12B
Bucharest 2006

I. A landmark for children and their rights

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was

adopted by the General Assembly of the United
Nations by its resolution 44/25 of 20 November
1989.
Some States argued that there was a need for a
comprehensive statement on children's rights after
they knew about the grave injustices suffered by
children: high infant mortality, deficient health care,
limited opportunities for basic education, children
being abused and exploited as prostitutes or in
harmful jobs, of children in prison or in other
difficult circumstances, and of children as refugees
and victims of armed conflict.

Universal and forward-looking principles

The Convention on the Rights of the Child has the
same meaning for people in all parts of the world.
While laying down common standards, the
Convention takes into account the different
cultural, social, economic, and political realities of
individual States so that each State may seek its
own means to implement the rights common to all.
There are four general principles enshrined in the
Convention:
- Non-discrimination
- Best interests of the child
- The right to life, survival, and development
- The views of the child

Safeguarding children's rights

Cardiff Law School is one of
the United Kingdoms largest
and most successful Law
Schools, and its size enables it
to sustain a vibrant research
culture, with expertise sought
globally.
Research by the Schools
Centre for International Family
Law Studies, for example, has
carried out the first socio-legal
study, funded by the Nuffield
Foundation, into the working
of the Hague Convention on
International Child Abduction.

Listening to Children's Voices

The children said that
the following were some
of the things that they
expect from care
workers:
- that they should be
friendly, loving and
responsible;
- that they should respect
the rights of children
and not abuse them;
- that they should be
trained to work with
children and about the
rights of children;
- that they should be
accessible and impartial.

Liberationism
The first claim in the
defence of the denial of
rights to children is that
children are disqualified
by virtue of their
incapacity to have rights.
Liberationists dispute
this. Liberationists can
allow that the key to the
appropriateness of giving
or not giving rights to
children turns on capacity
There are different ways
in which the liberationists
claim about capacity whether qualified or not can be made.

Constructive monitoring
A number of international human
rights bodies contribute to
improving respect for the rights
of the child in their particular
areas of competence. In addition
to the Commission on Human
Rights, the Sub-Commission on
Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities and its
Working Group on Contemporary
Forms of Slavery, which deals
with aspects of the exploitation
and mistreatment of children,
relevant international human
rights bodies include the
following:
- Human Rights Committee;
- Committee on Economic, Social,
and Cultural Rights:
- Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination;
- Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women;

II. The 1990s: A decade for children's rights

All the world's children are the
future of the earth because the
future belong to the children
who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.
In the 1990s Heads of State
made a strong commitment to
the defence of children and
reaching goals on their behalf.
The 1990s have become a
decade in which the response of
the UN system to the flagging
development movement has been
to embark on a series of global
conferences.
Meanwhile UNICEF has done its
best to keep children's concerns
prominently in view.

Making children's rights a reality

The Convention on the Rights of
the Child and the Committee on
the Rights of the Child attach
special importance to
international cooperation and
assistance as ways of achieving
the effective protection of
children's rights.
The United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights,
whose mandate includes the
enhancement of international
cooperation for the promotion
and protection of all human
rights, is providing assistance in
this regard and encourages
Governments to respond
favourably to the Committee's
recommendations.

Critics of Children's Rights

There are some people who think that children should not
have any rights. Alternatively, put less brusquely, they
are sceptical, for theoretical and political reasons, about
attributing rights to children. Their case is made in three
ways.
The first is to assert what liberationists deny, namely that
children are not qualified as adults are to have rights.
The second is to argue that the ascription of rights to
children is inappropriate because it displays a
misunderstanding of what childhood is, what children
are like, or what relationships children stand in to adults.
The third is to argue that, notwithstanding their lack of
rights, children can be assured of adequate moral
protection by other means.

As a conclusion

Child liberationists claim that children have all the rights

that adults do.
Those who deny children all or some of the rights possessed
by adults nevertheless believe that children, as humans,
have a certain moral status that ought to be protected.
Children and their rights, in respect to listening to their
parents. Is there such a thing today, as an understanding
as to what age one has to obey, on upbringing laws, that is
fair for all. There are no maybes, if or but in this era, it is
all one way or no way

Superior School of Commerce Nicolae Kretzulescu

Childrens Right

Teacher Coordinator:
Dorina Camelia Ierulescu

Student:
Vlad Nadina Florentina
12B
Bucharest 2006