The CRC is concerned with protecting children from injury and providing disabled children adequate protection. Article 2 states that the rights set forth in the Convention must be applied ...

We are working to help protect the rights of children around the world, so they can learn safely, be treated fairly, and thrive as they grow into adults.

This was the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. On the same day in 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the ...

The Convention provides a legal framework for ensuring the prompt return of wrongfully removed children through cooperation between signatory nations to uphold and facilitate custody rights and ...

International child abduction is an escalating global issue that demands urgent attention and coordinated international ...

by children, to commemorate the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The day is a global call to ensure children’s rights to health care, education and a safe and happy childhood.

Protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse: new online training course ...

UNICEF is the UN organisation with the job of protecting the rights of every child, everywhere in the world. In 1989 the United Nations Convention Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was created to ...

Children need additional rights because they need extra protection. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international document that sets out all of the rights ...