Rights are
what you should have or be able to
do to have
the best start in life. These rights
are listed
in the UN Convention on the Rights
of the
Child. All rights are equally important
and are
connected to each other. You are born
with these
rights, and no one can take them
away. Many
adults are responsible to help
protect
your rights and do what is best for
you. As you
grow, you have more
responsibility
to make choices and exercise
your rights.
You can also respect the rights of
others and
help children around the world
through different organizations .
Governments
have the main responsibility to
make sure
the rights of children in the
Convention
on the Rights of the Child are
protected and
provided for. All citizens have responsibilities
to respect the rights of
children as
well. Children can show their
respect for
the rights of others in different
ways. For
example, children can:
• Respect
others’ right to education by
helping
them learn
• Respect
others’ right to protection from
harm by
being kind and stopping bullying
• Respect
others’ right to share their views
by asking
what they think or want to do.
A
convention is an agreement between
countries
to obey the same laws. Argentina
agreed to
obey (ratified) the Convention on
the Rights
of the Child in 1990. Doing so, it
made a
promise to make sure all children in
Argentina get their rights met.
The
Convention on the Rights of the Child
has 54
parts, called articles.
In our country, the long awaited national Law for the Integral
Protection of Children and Adolescents was enacted in 2005 to implement the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Argentina in 1990. In
addition to adopting comprehensive protective measures for children, it lays
the groundwork for a juvenile justice system, calls for institutionalized
children to be integrated back into society, and establishes mechanisms to
protect children from abuse and exploitation.
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