Ensuring Child Rights for a Just Society
Walter Leal Filho et al. (eds), Peace, Justice, and Strong Institution: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-319-71066-2. (online) https://doi.org/10.1007/978
14 Pages Posted: 22 Mar 2022
Date Written: 2020
Abstract
As clearly defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), children's rights entails a conceptual method and guide towards recognising the children as the rightful holders of universally accepted rights just like other human beings (UNCRC, 1989). It is generally established that children are entitled to fundamental universally-accepted human rights that include the right to a decent life, equality, and human dignity. Furthermore, children are also entitled to certain 'child-specific rights' which comprise of the right to proper development, livelihood and attention, and right to education. The children’s rights form a division of human rights that gives special attention to exceptional care and protection rights, mainly to children or minors. In essence, human rights are those moral values or norms that define specific and basic standards of human and social behaviours, which are regular protection within domestic and universal laws (Campbell 1992).
Keywords: Child, children’s right, justice, deprived children, legal framework, eradication
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