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Introducing UNCRC

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) establishes that children have the same human rights as adults, along with additional rights specific to their needs during childhood. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing children as individuals and ensures that their rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled, with a focus on their best interests. The UNCRC outlines four General Principles that guide the interpretation of children's rights, including non-discrimination and the right to express their views.

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Introducing UNCRC

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) establishes that children have the same human rights as adults, along with additional rights specific to their needs during childhood. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing children as individuals and ensures that their rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled, with a focus on their best interests. The UNCRC outlines four General Principles that guide the interpretation of children's rights, including non-discrimination and the right to express their views.

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Introducing the UNCRC

Children’s Rights as Human Rights


Children and young people have the same human rights as adults. These are the same rights that
protect everyone. They span the entire spectrum of civil, political, economic, social, cultural and
environmental rights. Children and young people also have additional rights that recognise that
childhood is a special, protected time, in which children must be allowed to grow, learn, play,
develop and flourish with dignity.

Specific human rights for children are set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
(UNCRC).

The Convention offers a vision of the child as an individual and as a member of a family and
community. By recognising children’s rights in this way, the Convention firmly sets the focus on
the whole child.

It is important to be clear that adult and children’s rights are equal, there is no hierarchy of human
rights.

We know that children and young people face unique barriers to realising their rights. Their
future often depends on the action taken by adults to implement their rights in practice. As
children their voices can be unheard, or more easily dismissed.

For that reason, the UNCRC recognises that children are human beings with fundamental rights
that are written into international law. It also makes clear that special action needs to be taken to
ensure those rights are respected, protected and fulfilled.

As one of the core United Nations (UN) human rights treaties, the UNCRC helps to safeguard the
dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all children and young people. It does this by
making sure that important rights set out in other international human rights treaties are applied in
a way that is relevant and appropriate to the needs of children and young people. The UNCRC
makes clear that in all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child shall be a
primary consideration.

What is the UNCRC?


The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the internationally mandated
children’s rights treaty that informs our strategies and programmes. It sets out the rights that all
children and young people in the UK have and outlines what children need to give them the best
chance of growing up happy, healthy and safe. It also explains how adults and governments
should work together to make sure all children can access all their rights. The UNCRC defines
the child as a person under 18 years of age.
General Principles of the UNCRC?
There are four articles in the UNCRC that are seen as special. They are known as the “General
Principles” and they help to interpret all the other articles.
• Rights should be applied without discrimination (Article 2)
• Best interests of the child to be a primary consideration (Article 3)
• Right to life, survival and development (Article 6)
• Right to express a view and have that view taken into account (Article 12)

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