The Rights of the Child 20 Years after: Dream or Reality

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Mehr Kamal
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations Declaration

Anniversaries provide a convenient time to stop and look back on the event they commemorate, a time to take stock of what has been achieved and assess what remains to be done. November 20, 1979, will mark the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. This year – the International Year of the Child – is particularly suited to this type of instrospection. IYC has put the spotlight on the situation of children all over the world and provided an impetus for child-related research. Drawing upon some of the statistics available, let us measure the rights the United Nations affirmed for children 20 years ago against the reality of their lives today.

scholarly journals Introduction: Looking Back to Look Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
Margaret P. Karns
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Member States ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Looking Back

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in 1945 invites us to look back at the achievement of creating this new organization even before the guns had fallen silent in World War II. It also prompts us to ask: Where is the organization today? How well has it fulfilled and is it still fulfilling the high ideals of its Charter? Even more importantly, how confident can we be that what has grown into the complex UN system will not just survive but also provide its member states and the peoples of the world with the organizational structures, resources, and tools needed to address twenty-first century challenges?

Removing Legal Discrimination Against Children Born Outside Marriage

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Expression ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
First Principle ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
National Governments

The First Principle of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) states that “The child shall enjoy all the rights set forth in this Declaration. All children, without any exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights, without distinction or discrimination on account of … birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family”. Such a general expression of the desirability of equal rights for all children can be of little practical significance in the absence of positive laws to give substance to its spirit. The Declaration itself recognizes this in its Preamble, which calls upon “… national Governments to recognize these rights and strive for their observance by legislation and other measures”.

scholarly journals Rights, responsibilities, and resistance: Legal discourse and intervention legislation in the Northern Territory in Australia

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (209) ◽  
pp. 167-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gale
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The One ◽  
United Nations Declaration

AbstractIn the shadow of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted and endorsed by 143 nations on 17th September 2007, the then Howard Government suspended the Racial Discrimination Act in Australia to implement the Northern Territory Emergency Response Bill, commonly referred to as the Northern Territory intervention. This legislation included the compulsory acquisition of townships; the suspension of the permit system to access Aboriginal communities; the removal of customary law or cultural practices in any legal considerations in sentencing; the abolition of the Community Development Employment Projects; and the quarantining of a proportion of welfare benefits for all recipients in designated communities. While Australia was one of only four nations who did not endorse the Declaration in 2007, the UN Declaration was subsequently adopted and endorsed in April 2009 by the then Rudd Labor Government. The ratification of the UN Declaration may appear to reflect a change of policy, yet amidst significant Indigenous opposition and criticism of the United Nations, the Gillard Labor Government continued the central tenants of the NT Intervention for a further ten years in the form of the Stronger Futures legislation in 2012. This essay explores some of the tensions and contradictions inherent within legal and political discourse in the recognition of rights between the rights of the child on the one hand, and Indigenous rights and citizenship rights within the Northern Territory Intervention legislation and policy of Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory.

IYC — Involvement of Kids a Key Feature: Report from the IYC National Committee of NGO's

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Related Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Continue Action

The United Nations has called on the Governments of the world to increase budgetry provisions for programs benefiting children or to revise present priorities in order to consolidate and build on the results of the International Year of the Child, which officially finishes at the end of this month.Australian Representative, Mr H.D. Anderson, at the United Nations thirty fourth General Assembly, said during the IYC debate: “IYC has surpassed all expectations reaching across national boundaries.“Australia has sought to continue action initiated in the Year by funding projects from the normal Budget rather than a special allocation and sees considerable value in proposals for the exchange of child-related research between developed and developing countries and periodic reporting on national activities after IYC.

The child’s voice in adoption proceedings: A European perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-615
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
European Court ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

The right of the child to be heard in adoption proceedings flows directly from the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by almost every country in the world. In this paper, the interpretation of this principle across European jurisdictions will be analysed, both in terms of children who are old enough to make a determinative decision concerning their future, and those who are younger yet still possess the right to be heard. The wide variety of practices in Europe highlight the lack of progress in this field of law, which is not assisted by the conservative jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

The Child’s Voice in Adoption Proceedings

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
European Court ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

The right of the child to be heard in adoption proceedings flows directly from the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by almost every country in the world. In this paper, the interpretation of this principle across European jurisdictions will be analysed, both in terms of children who are old enough to make a determinative decision concerning their future, and those who are younger yet still possess the right to be heard. The wide variety of practices in Europe highlight the lack of progress in this field of law, which is not assisted by the conservative jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

scholarly journals Global child mental health: what can we learn from countries with limited financial resources?

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Skokauskas ◽  
Myron Belfer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Child Mental Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Health Organization

In 1977 the World Health Organization recommended that every country throughout the world should have a national plan for child mental health. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been another important stimulus for child mental health policies and services in many countries. Adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 and instituted as international law in 1990, the Convention is an agreement on the basic protections that should be accorded to children. Adopted in 1961, the European Social Charter is the major European treaty that secures children's rights. In 1996 the Charter was revised and expanded to include a list of core obligations of the contracting parties relating to the recognition of social, legal and economic rights for children and young persons.

Human Rights Reaffirmed

Philosophy ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 69 (270) ◽  
pp. 479-490
Author(s):  
Tibor R. Machan
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations Declaration

There have been a number of attacks on the idea of human rights recently, both in the course of political and diplomatic encounters across the globe, as well as in the more systematic literature of political philosophy. These attacks do not always distinguish between the Lockean, negative and the more recent positive rights traditions. For example, at the 1993 summer conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria, many diplomats from different regions of the world raised such questions as 'When we speak of human rights, are these conditions that everyone everywhere ought to enjoy?’Is it perhaps the case that human rights are one thing for people in one part of the globe and another for those in another part?' These questions were raised in large part about the rights spelled out in the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights, including both (so called) negative and positive rights–e.g., the rights to freedom of expression and to public education, respectively.

"Felicitas Liberorum Suprema Lex" (IYC in Poland and the World)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 695-696
Author(s):  
Lucas L. Kulczycki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthy Adults ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
National Commission ◽  
The World ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The United Nations

The year 1979, the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Children, formulated by the United Nations, is declared an International Year of the Child (IYC). During this year each nation is focusing on the problems and needs of its own children, and attempting to share its resources with needy children of the world. An International Secretariat of UNICEF is coordinating world activities of the IYC. In the United States a National Commission of the IYC was established with Mrs. Jean Young as chairperson. The National Institutes of Health launched an exhibit entitled "NIH Research: Helping Children Grow into Healthy Adults."

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