Rights under the Convention and the Optional Protocols - Children’s Convention from the United Nations

This section contains questions on:

• General measures of implementation
  • Reservations, legislation, policy and strategy
  • Allocation of resources
  • Data collection
  • Children’s rights and the business sector
• Definition of the child
• General principles
  • Non-discrimination
  • Best interests of the child
  • Right to life
  • Respect for the views of the child
• Civil Rights and Freedoms
  • Right to identity
  • Right to privacy
  • Access to appropriate information
• Violence against children
  • Freedom of the child from all forms of violence
  • Harmful practices
• Family environment and alternative care
  • Family environment
  • Children deprived of a family environment
  • Adoption
• Children with disabilities
• Basic health and welfare
  • Health, including mental health, and health services
  • Climate change
  • Standard of living
• Education, leisure and cultural activities
• Special protection measures
  • Asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children
  • Children belonging to minority or indigenous groups
  • Economic exploitation, including child labour
  • Administration of child justice
• Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
• Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict

Previous page | Next page