UN Convention on Children's Rights: 25 years on
At a Glance
20-11-2014
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the first international treaty to recognise children as human beings with innate rights. Since 1989, conditions for children have improved, but millions remain unprotected.
At a Glance
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- access to education
- basic needs
- child labour
- child protection
- children's rights
- criminal law
- demography and population
- drinking water
- economic conditions
- ECONOMICS
- education
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- ENVIRONMENT
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- gender equality
- infant mortality
- international affairs
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- LAW
- national accounts
- natural environment
- paedophilia
- poverty
- rights and freedoms
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- the EU's international role
- trafficking in human beings
- UN convention