child rights
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Facts about Children in Pakistan (2006)
• Out of 40 million children (5-14 years), 22 million are estimated to be out of school
• Estimated 10 million children are laborers (2 million are under 10 with hazardous conditions)
• 9% die before 1st birthday
• Out of 5000 babies in 2005, edhi foundation found 99% dead or alive (infanticide and abandonment)
Some other Facts
Destination forGirls from Bangladesh, BurmaAfghanistan, Central Asia
Domestic Violence
Child Marriages
3500 in prisonsApart frominfants
Sexual AbuseChild TraffickingDrug Abuse
Beggary
AidsFood Security
Suicide AttacksSuicide Attacks
Camel instigators
CHILDREN ALSO HAVE RIGHTS!!
Many groups of children and adults from all over
the world discussed what children’s concerns are.
Then the United Nations came up with a list of
rights
For all children all over the world in 1989. (30TH year of declaration of child rights and international year off child)
CHILD AND RIGHTS
• CHILD
Any human being up to the age of 18 is considered a child
• RIGHTSA right is something to which
I am entitled solely by virtue of being a person. It is that which enables me to live with dignity. Moreover, a right can be enforced before the government and entails an obligation on the part of the government to honor it
What is a Right and Need?
• A Right is something to which I am entitled solely by virtue of being a person. It is that which enables me to live with dignity. Moreover, a right can be enforced before the government and entails an obligation on the part of the government to honor it
• A Need, on the other hand, is an aspiration which can be quite legitimate, but is not necessarily associated with an obligation on the part of the government to cater to it;
• Satisfaction of a need cannot be enforced
Can you tell which of these are RIGHTs and which are not?
Food OR Ice Creams
To be protected from ever getting a cold OR to be protected from ever getting kidnapped
Personal computer OR Education
To share my opinions OR to do whatever I want
Vulnerable Children
VulnerabilityRefers to:•Susceptibility
•Exposure•At Risk•Weak
•Defenseless•Helpless
•In Danger
Physical AbuseEmotional
Neglect Sexual Abuse
hitting, ablaze, caningchildren, punishing by denying food/nutrition, abduction, and kidnapping
inappropriate touching torape, and non-contact sexual abuse, which
is forcing a child to observe sexual acts,and showing pornography to a child
when a child’s parents or carersdeliberately fail to meet the child’s basicneeds, such as food, clothes, warmth and
shelter, hygiene and medical care.
humiliation, uncaringattitudes, absence of praise, ridiculing, discrimination,
compulsive teasing, denying time to play,demoralizing the child rather than focusingon behavior changes. Stigmatizing childrenwith disabilities and withholding affection
Children’s rights are violated throughout the world every day…
Basic Basic Facts Facts (international)(international)
◘ Between 15 and 20 million children are working as slaves at this moment.
◘ An estimated 2 million children worldwide are sexually exploited every year.
◘ 300,000 children around the world are actively participating in more than 20 armed conflicts.
◘ An estimated 25 million children and adolescents are currently uprooted from their homes; they make up nearly half of the refugee population worldwide.
◘ There are an estimated 100 million children living on the streets today.
The Convention on the Rights of the Childrecognizes each one of these practices as a violation of human
rights, and obliges each government to work toward eliminating these practices within their own nation and
throughout the world.
Basic Facts Basic Facts (International)(International)
◘ To establish and support the international system.
◘ To provide legal rules to resolve multi-national disputes.
◘ To help maintain peace internationally.
Why Do We Have Why Do We Have International International Laws?Laws?
A convention is a specific type of international law. It is an agreement or compact, especially among nations, usually created within an international organization such as the United Nations. Countries must..
1. Sign2. Ratify3. Monitor and Enforce the treaty
What is a What is a Convention?Convention?
The CRC is a treaty that lays out the rights of children and the standards to which all
governments must aspire in order to promote these rights.
What is the Convention What is the Convention on the Rights of the on the Rights of the Child?Child?
Basics of Basics of the CRCthe CRC◘ The best interests of the child are always the primary
consideration.
◘ A child should be protected against all forms of discrimination and punishment.
◘ A child has the right to survival and development.
◘ A child should be protected from abuse and neglect.
◘ A child has the right to education, housing, healthcare, and all forms of mental and physical well-being.
◘ Child Labor
◘ Drug Abuse
◘ Sexual Exploitation
◘ Sale, Trafficking and Abduction
◘ Torture and Deprivation of Liberty
◘ Armed Conflicts
Additional Additional Protections Under Protections Under the CRCthe CRC
6. States Parties make rights widely known.
7. Committee proposes special studies etc. to be undertaken in the countries.
8. All countries help each other implement the Convention.
Enforcing Enforcing the CRCthe CRC1. Countries sign the CRC.
2. Countries ratify the CRC.
3. Countries rights widely known.
4. Committee on the Rights of the Child.
5. Committee reviews reports submitted by States Parties two years after ratification, and every 5 years thereafter.
◘ Educate yourself about the CRC.
◘ Contact local, state, and national politicians• Write letters asking them to ratify the CRC.
◘ Talk to your parents about the CRC.• Educate the adults in your life!
◘ Advocate for awareness of the CRC.• Begin a social awareness/ human
rights club.
What Can What Can You Do?You Do?
The Millennium Development Goals:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerAchieve universal primary educationPromote gender equality and empower womenReduce child mortality Improve maternal healthCombat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other
diseasesEnsure environmental sustainabilityDevelop a global partnership for development
Full Text of the CRC
www.unicef.org/crc/fulltext.htm
Campaign for the US Ratification of the CRC
www.childrightscampaign.org
UNICEF
www.unicef.org
UN High Commission on Human Rightswww.unhcr.org
Amnesty Internationalwww.amnesty.org
Youth Advocate Program Internationalwww.yapi.org
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