BMJ 1996;313:1565-1566 (21 December)

Editorials

Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Governments are failing, but the buck also stops with us

In December 1991 the British government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The convention, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, has now been ratified by an unprecedented 187 countries. It contains rights relating to every aspect of children's lives: rights to survival, development, protection, and participation. Once a country has ratified the convention, it is obliged under international law to comply with its principles and standards. To date, the British government has not adequately fulfilled this obligation.

The government undertook to implement the principles of the convention and report progress after two years and subsequently every five years to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, the elected international body responsible for monitoring compliance with the convention. (The committee also encourages non-governmental organisations to produce alternative reports as a . . . [Full text of this article]


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