Human Rights and Children

UN# 140737C      A Japanese boy paints a homemade tree in Tokyo.	UN# 152408C      Two Ethiopian children absorbed in each other's beads.	UN# 152103C      A boy plays with his pet parrot in Santarem in the Amazon region of Brazil.	UN# 152368C      Boys play on a slide in Guatemala.
UN# 156318C      A boy from the Solomon Islands plays with a homemade truck.	UN# 153554C      An Afghan refugee boy plays with makeshift toys Pakistan.	UN# 154976C      A child of a homeless family holds her doll on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil.	UN# 152047C      Two school boys enjoy reading in Bhutan.

        Millions of children die every year from malnutrition and disease or become victims of slavery, torture and sexual exploitation. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN's lead advocate for children, has described the world's children as the "forgotten quarter of the Earth's people." It is the United Nations that, in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, has provided a standard, a benchmark against which the behaviour of nations can be tenaciously and perpetually measured and improved.

ENDING HAZARDOUS CHILD LABOR


Children looking in garbage dump, Brazil. UN# 154344C


In 1992 the General Assembly urged Governments and the Commission on Human Rights to take action on the problem of street children, who are increasingly involved in and affected by serious crime, drug abuse, violence and prostitution.

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