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Child Rights

• Commentary
• A conventional approach, by Hoda Badran
• Progress towards universal acceptance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Commentary
  • Convention covers 90% of world's children
  • Ex cathedra
  • Not by government alone
  • Most nations late reporting
  • One third of governments lodge reservations
• Violations: survival, education, nutrition
  • Commentary
  • NPGs - a measure of the Convention
  • Where female literacy is half
  • Denied the right to walk the earth
  • The war on children
• Gender inequalities, children in conflict, child labour, child prostitution
  • Commentary
  • The ultimate abuse
  • Children pay high price for cheap labour
  
  

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