UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- October 14, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Subject – IR
Context – UN panel says it cannot rule on Greta Thunberg’s climate case
Concept –
- The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a body of experts that monitor and report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- It recognizes a child as every human being under 18 years old.
- The Committee also monitors the Convention’s three optional protocols:
- the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict,
- the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure
- The UNCRC is a human rights treaty that sets the political, civil, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.
- It is an international agreement that is legally binding on the members.
- It consists of 54 articles that spell out various children’s rights and also the measures governments should take in order to make these rights available to children.
- The CRC was adopted by the United Nations in 1989. It entered into force in 1990 after receiving the minimum of 20 ratifications.
- It has been ratified by all members of the UN except for the United States. It is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the history of the world.
- Under the articles of the convention, all parties to it are required to ensure that children’s basic needs are fulfilled and they are able to reach their full potential.
4 core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Non-discrimination
- Right to life, survival and development
- Best interests of the child
- Respect for the child’s views