About "The Convention on the Rights of the Child"

The 20th of November 1989 UN’s General Assembly unanimously passed the convention on the rights of the child, after more than ten years of preliminary work. Already in 1978 Poland suggested that a convention concerning the rights of children was made.

The child’s rights convention is an international set of rules, which is made to secure equal rights for children all over the world. The child’s rights convention is the convention that has been ratified by most countries, the only two countries that still haven’t ratified it is Somalia and the USA! According to the convention a child has the exact same rights, wherever it grows up, except of course Somalia, USA and the few countries that aren’t members of UN. It is very important to be aware that the convention is actually a "law" that the countries that have ratified it are bound to follow, as opposed to the declaration of human rights that countries only have to "aim at" following. The convention contains 54 articles.

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