Human Rights

The Human Rights

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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

List of children's rights topics

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Capital punishment
Child abandonment
Child identity rights
Child refugees
Child advocacy
Child camel jockeys
Child laundering
Child labour
Child pornography
Child prostitution
Children's rights in Islam
Children's Rights Alliance for England
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Corporal punishment
Cultural rights
Child soldiers

Children's rights

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Children's rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to the young, including their right to association with both biological parents, human identity as well as the basic needs for food, universal state-paid education, health care and criminal laws appropriate for the age and development of the child. Interpretations of children's rights range from allowing children the capacity for autonomous action to the enforcement of children being physically, mentally and emotionally free from abuse. Other definitions include the rights to care and nurturing.

"A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." According to Cornell University, a child is a person, not a subperson, and the parent has absolute interest and possession of the child. The term "child" does not necessarily mean minor but can include adult children as well as adult nondependent children. There are no definitions of other terms used to describe young people such as "adolescents", "teenagers," or "youth" in international law.

Human rights

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Human rights refers to the "basic rights Examples of rights and freedoms which are often thought of as human rights include and freedoms to which all humans are entitled."civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law; and social, cultural and economic rights, including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, the right to work, and the right to education.