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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. [ 4] The convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is ...
Child protection, according to UNICEF, refers to "preventing and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against children – including commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labour and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage". [50]
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."
Under Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a 'child protection system' provides for the protection of children in and out of the home.One of the ways this can be enabled is through the provision of quality education, the fourth of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in addition to other child protection systems.
UNICEF ( / ˈjuːniˌsɛf / YOO-nee-SEF ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [ a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. [ 3][ 4] The organization is one of the most widely ...
Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child. [1] Although the age of majority (legal adulthood) and marriage age are typically 18 years old, these thresholds can differ in different jurisdictions. [2] In some regions, the legal age for marriage can ...
The CRC is one of the ten UN human rights treaty-based bodies. [4] The committee was created by the convention on 27 February 1991. [5] The committee is made up of 18 members from different countries and legal systems who are of 'high moral standing' and experts in the field of human rights. Although members are nominated and elected by States ...
t. e. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) defines the “umbrella” of crimes and activities that involve inflicting sexual abuse on to a child as a financial or personal opportunity. Commercial Sexual Exploitation consists of forcing a child into prostitution, sex trafficking, early marriage, child sex tourism and any other ...