Why is the uncrc important
UNCRC (part1): Where did it come from?
everyone has human rights children are
of course human too and they enjoy many
of the rights that adults do in
international human rights treaties what
many people don't know is that there's
also a treaty that's dedicated just to
children the UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child we'll take a closer look at
the convention later but it's important
to understand that the idea that
children should have rights dates much
farther back there's been a
long-standing focus on protecting
vulnerable children as a charitable
response to suffering however at the
start of the 20th century some activists
started promoting the idea that children
should have rights in the aftermath of
the First World War
eglantine Jeb and others campaigned for
the first international declaration of
the rights of the child
in 1924 an expanded version of this was
adopted by the United Nations in 1959
during the International Year of the
child in 1979 Poland proposed that there
should be a convention for children over
the next decade countries around
debated and negotiated the text of what
would become the most widely supported
human rights treaty the UN ever produced
the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child
