UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international treaty – an agreement between different countries – designed specifically to meet the needs of children. Children have all of the rights in other international human rights treaties too, but the UNCRC includes additional rights which only children need.
The UNCRC says that all children and young people under the age of 18 have certain rights. The Convention is separated into 54 ‘articles’, or sections. The rights in the...
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