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1. Child Rights

2. Introduction
• My child, your child, their child but never
OUR Child
• Attitude of the people
• 20th century – Century of the Child
• Sanskrit poetry – children are referred as
Jewels of Home
• The problems of children are many…

3. UN Convention
• Convention on rights of the child was called
for in 1978
• 1979 was the International year of the child
• Took ten years to consolidate
• UN General Assembly accepted it on 20th
november 1989.
• Became international law by 2nd september
1990

4. • 54 articles of the convention can be divided in
to three main parts
• The Key Principles
• Specific Rights
• Ways in which these rights will be monitored

5. The Key Principles
• Right to Survival and Development
• Respect for the best interest of the child as a
primary consideration
• The right of the child to express it’s views
freely in all matters affecting them
• The rights of the children to enjoy all rights of
the convention without discrimination of any
kind

6. Specific Rights
• Definition of child – less than 18 years age
(unless the country legal law has it lower)
• Civil rights and freedom, including the right to
a name and nationality, to freedom of
expression, thought and association, to access
to information and the right not to be
subjected to torture

7. • Family and Environment
• Alternative care – right to live with the
parents, to be reunited with the parents.
• Basic health and welfare – disabled children
• Education and cultural activities
• Right to play, leisure and participation in
cultural life and the arts.

8. Child Rights
• The 54 articles can be broadly grouped under
four heads…
•Right to Survival
•Right to Development
•Right to Protection
•Right to Participation

9. Right to Survival
• Right to be born

10. • Right to family Environment
• Adoption
• Foster care
• Alternative forms of care

11. Right to Development
• Right to Education
– All the children up to age of 14 – compulsory free
education or up to 8th std (SSA)
– Prohibition of child labour

12. • Right to health care
• Protection and care
– Migrant Children
– Trafficking Children
– Street Children
• Special Children – with disabilities (physical,
mental,..)

13. Right to Protection
• Protection from…
•Sexual Abuse
•Physical Abuse
•Emotional Abuse

14. Right to Participation
• Has the right to participate in his/her future
• Best interest of the child