Book contents
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
2 - Creating the Right to Development of Children
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2019
Book contents
- The Child’s Right to Development
- The Child’s Right to Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Embedding the Protection of ‘Child Development’ into International Children’s Rights Law
- 2 Creating the Right to Development of Children
- 3 The Interpretation of the Right to Development by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- 4 Exploring the Meanings of Human and Child Development
- 5 A New Framework for Analysing the Child’s Right to Development
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
As part of the twentieth birthday celebration of the 1959 UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations declared 1979 to be the International Year of the Child. The government of Poland took this opportunity to suggest a new Convention setting out the rights of the child. After a decade of negotiations, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The final version was radically different from the original draft, and one notable change – and one of the Convention’s main innovations in international children’s rights law – was the recognition of the child’s right to development in a binding treaty.
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- The Child's Right to Development , pp. 55 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019