Unfc Research Paper
What is the UNCRC?
UNCRC aims to help children in meeting necessity basic needs and expanding opportunities that reach out in developing children's full potential
All children and young people up to the age of 18 years have all the rights in the Convention. Some groups of children and young people - for example, those living away from home, and young disabled people - have additional rights to make sure they are treated fairly and their needs are met.
Since 16th December 1991, when the treaty came into force in the UK, every child in the UK has been entitled to over 40 specific rights. These include: the right to life, survival, and development; the right to have their views respected, and to have their best interests considered always;
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They increase awareness all over the world to provide a fair 'level playing field' for protecting children from disadvantages (Siraj-Blatchford, 2009).
What is the significance of the UNCRC?
Over the years, the UNCRC has helped to establish an internationally accepted framework for the treatment of all children, encouraged a positive and optimistic image of children as active holders of rights, and stimulated a greater commitment to safeguarding these rights.” However, the convention has also been highly criticised as being a new moral crusade to save children, especially regarding Third World children whose lives do not comply with a Western concept of childhood (Pupavac: 2001).
There specific types of knowledge that guide an understanding of what is to be a child and what childhood should be like. These understandings are responsible for the normalisation of children, and a way in which Western tradition is positioned as superior to non-Western ones.
Children’s rights theorists and the UNCRC aim to enhance the participation of children and give them greater autonomy, the result is the maintenance of the status
UNCRC aims to help children in meeting necessity basic needs and expanding opportunities that reach out in developing children's full potential
All children and young people up to the age of 18 years have all the rights in the Convention. Some groups of children and young people - for example, those living away from home, and young disabled people - have additional rights to make sure they are treated fairly and their needs are met.
Since 16th December 1991, when the treaty came into force in the UK, every child in the UK has been entitled to over 40 specific rights. These include: the right to life, survival, and development; the right to have their views respected, and to have their best interests considered always;
the …show more content…
They increase awareness all over the world to provide a fair 'level playing field' for protecting children from disadvantages (Siraj-Blatchford, 2009).
What is the significance of the UNCRC?
Over the years, the UNCRC has helped to establish an internationally accepted framework for the treatment of all children, encouraged a positive and optimistic image of children as active holders of rights, and stimulated a greater commitment to safeguarding these rights.” However, the convention has also been highly criticised as being a new moral crusade to save children, especially regarding Third World children whose lives do not comply with a Western concept of childhood (Pupavac: 2001).
There specific types of knowledge that guide an understanding of what is to be a child and what childhood should be like. These understandings are responsible for the normalisation of children, and a way in which Western tradition is positioned as superior to non-Western ones.
Children’s rights theorists and the UNCRC aim to enhance the participation of children and give them greater autonomy, the result is the maintenance of the status