Enhancing and Protecting Children's Right

Children’s rights are considered to be one of the most important issues that are discussed these days. There’s a rapid pace of agreements and movements towards the acknowledgment and expansion of the rights of children around the world. “In the past, research treated children as objects; research was done on them with the agenda and framework set purely by adults. New work is emerging where children create the way of research, as they act as researchers and researchers work with questions formulated by children and work with children.” ( Jones, P. , Welch, S. 2010).
Many efforts are done through different organizations to enhance and protect the children’s rights, but the most of all is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is the cornerstone that sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children all over the world, taking into consideration the cultural and traditions diversity of each country. “In addition, it recognises the importance of international co-operation for improving the living conditions of children in every country, in particular in the developing countries “(Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989). This can be seen in the 54 articles, each of which details a different type of right, as they can be concluded in survival, development, protection, and participation rights.
Some of the developed countries who ratified the UNCRC are moving on the right track towards better children’s rights fulfillments, as it was clear in the excerpt from UNICEF’s summary of the UNCRC for children that the governments play an important role in protecting the children’s rights. They are responsible to ensure that the children are cared for and protect them from ...

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