Protecting the human rights of children is to invest in the future. Children's rights are the building blocks for a solid human rights culture, the basis for securing human rights for future generations.
Children are entitled to all the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the various treaties that have developed from it. Children are also guaranteed additional rights, notably under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified human rights treaty – because they need special protection and care. They must be able to depend on the adult world to look after them, to defend their rights and to help them develop and realize their potential.
Governments are obliged to protect all the rights of the child - economic, social and cultural rights as well as civil and political. States are not only responsible for the violations committed by their own state officials, but they are also obliged to take positive measures to prevent abuses against children by private individuals, whether in the community or in the family.
Amnesty International campaigns around the world to ensure that children's human rights are protected. It calls on governments, opposition groups and all other actors who exercise control over children to adhere to the principle of ''best interests of the child'' as the primary consideration in all actions concerning children
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