Convention on the Rights of the Child
Author: United Nations Publisher: Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada Date: 1991
Description: Canada ratified the Convention on 13 December 1991. Since then, a number of laws, policies and practices affecting children have advanced children's rights to protection, development and participation in decisions affecting their lives.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. -from Google
"Children were long treated as an object of law – as being without capacity and in need of protection – and were given no rights. Today, the child is recognized as a full person, whose capacity is developing and the child is recognized as having rights of his or her own. Children are now true subjects of law, but deserve special protection because of their particular vulnerability. This is the modern concept of the child on which the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is based.
The CRC came into force on September 2, 1990, less than a year after it was adopted on November 20, 1989 by the United Nations General Assembly. It led to a new dynamic, which was given concrete expression in, for example, the World Summit for Children (1990) and the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children (2002).
The CRC is a virtually universal reference and instrument, as it is the most ratified treaty in history, with 193 States Parties.[2] To be truly effectual the CRC depends on effective application, especially in domestic law, but full implementation of the CRC by all States Parties is still problematic.
In principle, every State Party is responsible for acting on its international commitments, and may not rely on the provisions of its own domestic law to avoid the obligations it has assumed under the CRC;[3] in practice, however, there are numerous obstacles to the application of the CRC.
While the CRC has resulted in important legislative activities in over half of the States Parties since it came into force in September 1990, some States Parties are still lagging behind in their implementation of all or some parts of the CRC.[4]" -Collected from Canadian Government Website: www.justice.gc.ca
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