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With the creation of the United Nations in 1945, substantial resources and political support were leveraged on behalf of children, not only by individual world governments, but also by U.N. agencies such as UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) and many other nongovernmental organizations (e.g. International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, CCF). With broad-based international support, the United Nations and its constituent agencies worked systematically to provide for the needs of children. | With the creation of the United Nations in 1945, substantial resources and political support were leveraged on behalf of children, not only by individual world governments, but also by U.N. agencies such as UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) and many other nongovernmental organizations (e.g. International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, CCF). With broad-based international support, the United Nations and its constituent agencies worked systematically to provide for the needs of children. | ||
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The special rights of the child were first articulated by the United Nations General Assembly in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which provided that "Motherhood and Childhood are entitled to special care and assistance.” But it was not until 30 years later that the first legally binding international treaty to incorporate the full range of human rights—civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights—was drafted. | The special rights of the child were first articulated by the United Nations General Assembly in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which provided that "Motherhood and Childhood are entitled to special care and assistance.” But it was not until 30 years later that the first legally binding international treaty to incorporate the full range of human rights—civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights—was drafted. | ||
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Since 2000, it has prepared several versions of an alternative outcome document called, 'A Children's Rights Agenda for the Coming Decade.' | Since 2000, it has prepared several versions of an alternative outcome document called, 'A Children's Rights Agenda for the Coming Decade.' | ||
| − | The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the monitoring body created in the Convention, established a systematic process for gathering and responding to reports from U.N. member states concerning progress toward meeting the standards set forth in the Convention. In May 2002, to review progress since the 1990 Summit and re-energize global commitment to children's rights, more than 7,000 people participated (including 3,600 children’s NGOs) in the most important international conference on children in more than a decade, the Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly on Children. The 2002 Special Session was the first of its kind devoted exclusively to children and the first to include them as official delegates. | + | The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the monitoring body created in the Convention, established a systematic process for gathering and responding to reports from U.N. member states concerning progress toward meeting the standards set forth in the Convention. In May 2002, to review progress since the 1990 Summit and re-energize global commitment to children's rights, more than 7,000 people participated (including 3,600 children’s NGOs) in the most important international conference on children in more than a decade, the Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly on Children. The 2002 Special Session was the first of its kind devoted exclusively to children and the first to include them as official delegates. |
==NGOs take leading role== | ==NGOs take leading role== | ||
Revision as of 09:07, 5 August 2008
This article is based on an article written for the NGO Handbook by Kate Perchuk titled "Children's Rights and Nonprofit Advocacy."
Over the course of the 19th century, the principles of children’s rights have evolved from the intellectual concern of European social theorists to an international charter drafted by the United Nations and ratified by 191 governments. The participation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has been and continues to be essential to the effort of the world’s nations to uphold the standards articulated by the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). NGO contributions to the global movement for children -- advocating for youth, monitoring compliance with the CRC, and coordinating aid and development programs -- have helped build a safer world for children.
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