Abstract
(CRC) is a landmark in the modern international protection of children's rights. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, its fifty-four articles and two Optional Protocols set out a lengthy catalogue of rights for children. The CRC bans all discrimination against children, including on grounds of their birth status. It provides children with rights to life; to a name, a social identity, and the care and nurture of both parents; to education, health care, recreation, rest, and play; to freedom of association, expression, thought, conscience, and religion; and to freedom from neglect or negligent treatment, from physical and sexual abuse, from cruel and inhumane treatment, and from compulsory military service.
Recommended Citation
John Witte Jr.,
Christianity's Mixed Contributions to Children's Rights: Traditional Teachings, Modern Doubts,
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Emory L. J.
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(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj/vol61/iss0/4