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"UN: Convention on Rights of the Child, 1989" [2005] ELECD 242; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 19

Section Title: UN: Convention on Rights of the Child, 1989

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

19. UN: Convention on the Rights of the Child,
1989

Commentary: The Convention (UN Doc A/44/49(1989), entry into force 1990)
is administered by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a body of inde-
pendent experts which assesses national reports on implementation and issues
general comments on thematic issues. Although it cannot consider individual
complaints, the CRC also monitors implementation of the Optional Protocols on the
Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts (UN Doc A/54/49, Vol III (2000), entry
into force 2002) and on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child
Pornography (extracted below). In addition to the provisions extracted below, State
Parties have also recognised for every child the rights to non-discriminatory treat-
ment (Article 2), life (6), a name, nationality and identity (7 & 8), freedom of expres-
sion (13 & 14), freedom of association and peaceful assembly (15), the highest
attainable standard of health (24), social security (26), an adequate standard of living
(27), education (28 & 29), culture (30) and rest and leisure (31). Under Article 18,
parents have the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of chil-
dren. However, special provisions apply to adopted (Articles 20 & 21) and disabled
children (23). See further, www.ohchr.org.



Article 1
For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age
of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.


Article 3
1. In all actions concerning children, whether ...