Convention on the Rights of the Child

the highest number of child brides worldwide, despite the fact that the practice of child marriage is illegal in the country. This trend is particularly relevant, as it reveals that child marriage—a significant human rights violation—has seemingly continued unabated in the region. This exploratory essay aims to understand why the practice of child marriage remains in India. The paper will first provide a general definition of child marriage through the lens of human rights norms, as well as…

line stands between the rights of the child and the protection of society. This comparison is important to note the new differential provision brought about in the Bill by India to treat the age group of 16-18. The age of majority is an important point of discussion to the international conventions regulating the rights of the child as it is necessary for every nation that is a signatory to conform to its regulations. The United Kingdom though a signatory to the same conventions as India also…

Child Abuse – The Failure of Social Services. The rate of abuse of children especially in the United Kingdom has grown to point that is now a national threat, one would have thought that the case of Victoria Climbie in 2000, and the case of baby Peter in 2007, would have attracted social services to the major cause of child abuse and try to stop it, but that is not the case today, and the situation is getting worse. The main purpose for this project is to understand and show why social…

policies and practices. A major influence factor has been the introduction of guidelines by the United Nations. The UN’s 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child has influenced youth justice system in many countries, including the principles underlying each justice system. In this paper, I will be discussing two countries, Canada’s and Scotland’s compliance with the UN Conventions principles that they have implemented since the 1990s. Understanding, that the Canadian approach is punitive, I…

The United Nations Conventions of the Rights of a Child is a treaty document that is embedded throughout The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework. Urie Bronfenbrenner Bronfenbrenner is known for the Ecological Systems Theory. This is theory based on different environmental systems and how they influence child development. There are five ecological systems; Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem. This theory is evident in our current provisions of…

A child is defined by the Convention on Rights (CROC) as “any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.” Whilst the aim behind this treaty is a valuable one, the effectiveness in enforcing it and ensuring accessibility for all can be thoroughly questioned. The Children’s court and the concept of Doli incapax are also mechanisms that have the equal goal of protecting rights for children, but again the efficiency of…

¨A treaty that sets out the rights such a diverse group, including babies, school children, soldiers, parents, and full-time workers, is ambitious to say the least¨ (Davies 51). These are all people that are affected in international adoption, and the treaty represents what may be put in place to positively shape the operation. The ways that all of these people are impacted by this practice can lead to controversial points. As intercountry adoption is widening it opens up for possible illegal…

core of this debate is the basic human rights issue. According to Gunner, Bruce, and Grotevant (2000) supporters of international adoption see international adoption as giving children the most fundamental human rights, the right to have a loving family who will give them their basic needs to grow up healthy and have a fulfilling life. But on the flip side those that oppose international adoption argue that it’s in fact violating these children’s human rights along with those of their birth…

Several international laws and agreements consider child marriage a violation of human rights and should be eliminated from both regional and international level. First, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Article 16(2) of the UDHR states that ‘Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses’, and the persons involved…

Internationally agreed definition for a child soldier: “Any person below 18 year of age who is, or who has been, recruited or used by an armed forced or armed group in any capacity, including but not limited to children, boys and girls, used as fighters, cooks, porters, messengers, spies or for sexual purposes…” Paris Principals and Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups, 2007. Tens of thousands of children under the age of 18 continue to serve government forces…