CAMBODIA | Thursday, 14 October 2010 | Views [482]
Article 1: "a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years" The Convention on the Rights of the Child is a legally binding international treaty that came into force on the 2nd of September 1990. The Convention's 54 articles spell out the basic human rights that children everywhere have: the right to survival, to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation, to participate fully in family, cultural and social life and to develop to the fullest. A child orphan, Siem Reap Cambodia.
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