This document provides an overview of a training on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It will take place from June 4-9, 2023 in Butuan City, Philippines. The training aims to increase participants' knowledge and appreciation of the UNCRC. The UNCRC is an international law that protects children's rights. It recognizes the rights of every child under age 18. The Philippines ratified the UNCRC in 1990. The document outlines the UNCRC's guiding principles, broad categories of rights, and implementation process. It also mentions the Philippines' submission of state compliance reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

2. Training of Trainers on the Use
of Enhanced Guidebook on
Child Participation and
Guidelines in Organizing the
Local Children’s Association
WELCOME
June 4 - 9, 2023
Watergate Hotel, Butuan City

3. Overview of United Nations
Convention on the Rights of
the Child
Session 1

4. Session Objectives
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
• Acquire knowledge and increase the level of appreciation for
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

7. United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child
(UNCRC)

8. UNCRC is an international instrument of
law, which state parties ratified / agreed
on for ALL children
. . . the most universally
accepted treaty in the UN with
almost all countries signed
and ratified it.
… the UN General Assembly
passed the CRC in 1989.

9. The Philippine Senate signed the
CRC on 26 January 1990 and
ratified on 21 August 1990
31st country to sign and ratify
5th in the ASIA

10. The Philippine Senate signed the
CRC on 26 January 1990 and
ratified on 21 August 1990
31st country to sign and ratify
5th in the ASIA
1. Protect every individual child
2. Create a condition that every child enjoy life
and reach his/her full potential
CRC is concerned with 2 things:
CRC introduced the Child Rights Approach

11. Child Rights Approach
• Shift from needs to rights
• Needs are not necessarily universal;
Rights are always universal
• Needs do not imply obligations;
Rights always imply obligations
• Human rights are inherent, indivisible, interdependent

13. Who is the child?
A child is every human being below
the age of 18 years unless, national laws
recognize the age of majority earlier - Article
1

14. • Non- discrimination
• Best Interest
• Survival and Development
• Participation
Guiding Principles

15. Broad Categories
•Survival
•Development
•Protection
•Participation

16. Survival Rights
• Right to life
• Right to health
• Right to social security
• Right to adequate standard of living
• Right to parental care and support

17. Developmental Rights
• Right to education
• Right to information
• Right to rest and leisure
• Right to enjoy one’s culture and
religion
• Right of the disabled child to
special care

18. Protection Rights
• Right to a name, nationality and identity
• Right to privacy
• Right to be protected from abuse and neglect
• Right to be protected from commercial &
sexual exploitation
• Right to be safe in emergency or especially
difficult circumstances
• Right to legal assistance & appropriate
judicial processes

19. Participation Right
• Right to opinion
• Right to freedom of expression
• Right to freedom in association
• Right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion

20. Who are the parties involved in the
implementation of the UNCRC?

21. A state party submits an initial report to a committee called the Committee on
the Rights of the Child, two years after ratification and its periodic report
every five years thereafter.
The committee is interested in the gaps so that it may recommend assistance
The committee does not monitor individuals

22. ❖Initial Country Report – 21 September 1993.
▪ Updates given in 1994 prior to the January 1995 dialogue
with the Committee
❖2nd Country report – 23 April 2003
▪ Updates given on June 2005 during the dialogue with the
Committee
❖3rd and 4th – 19 September 2007
▪ The UN-CRC acknowledged receipt of the report on 18
January 2009
❖5 and 6th – February 2019

23. Submission of the Philippine Country Report to the
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
• The Philippine government
has formally submitted the
5th and 6th State Compliance
Report to the UN
Committee on the Rights of
the Child in February 2019.
• The UN Office of the
Commissioner for Human
Rights has posted and
officially received the report
in March 2019.

24. • UN Constructive Dialogue held on September 13-14, 2022

25. UNCRC Concluding Observations and Recommendations
General Measures of
Implementation
Basic Principles
Civil rights and
Freedoms
Family and Alternative
Care
Basic Health and
Welfare
Education, Leisure and
Culture
Special Protection
Optional Protocol on
the Sale of Children,
Child Prostitution and
Child Pornography
Optional Protocol on
Children in Situations
of Armed Conflict

26. Ang Convention ay naglalaman din ng ilang mga kasunduan upang magdagdag
ng higit pang natatanging mga karapatang pambata na opsyonal para sa mga
bansa - ang mga ito ay tinatawag na “Optional Protocols"
On the sale of
children, child
prostitution, child
pornography
On the involvement of
children in armed
conflict
Ratified by GOP:
28 May 2002
On communications
procedure
Ratified by GOP:
26 Aug 2003
Not yet ratified by
GOP

27. Are our children
enjoying their rights?

28. What
do we
do? All children have rights!
Basta Bata, Tayo ang
Bahala!