General Article All rights, every child

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In creating the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the international community has recognised that children are people who have rights that must be respected equally to those of adults.

Four main principles form the core of the CRC:

Non-discrimination or universality (article 2): All children have rights, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.

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