UN Launches Legislative Guide On Child Rights

UN Launches Legislative Guide On Child Rights Treaty

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched a new publication which aims to serve as a research tool for children's rights advocates based on the major international treaty guiding their work.

"This major study documents how the Convention on the Rights of the Child came to represent a sea change in the way the international community was prepared to address the rights of children," High Commissioner Louise Arbour writes in the book's preface.

The two-volume Legislative History on the Convention on the Rights of the Child lists among the many major advances ushered in by the Convention recognition, for the first time in a human rights treaty, of the differential and often discriminatory impact that national legislation, policies, attitudes and cultural traditions can have on girls.

The Legislative History on the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first comprehensive record of the drafting of the Convention, according to a news release from Ms. Arbour's office.

Produced following 10 years of work by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden, the publication is available on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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