General Comment No.25 on Children's Rights and the Environment in the Context of Climate Change
General Comment No.25
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Highlights
Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights
treaty in history. The Convention on the Rights of the Child declares the necessary actions adults and states need to take to ensure that children are well, safe, free, healthy, and themselves. Children have these rights simply because they are children. Child Rights Committee of experts exists to assess the implementation of the
Convention, ratified on November 20, 1989, in different countries. Committee on the Rights of the Child has created this document based on the outlook and
needs of children. Climate crisis and environmental pollution are affecting children. The text explains to states and adults what needs to be done to protect children's rights and ensure children grow up in a healthy environment within the scope of
"General Comment 26".
