Children's Rights

Legal Studies Essay - Draft


Children’s rights are a serious and controversial legal issue, involving young people and the law. This issue is also made very unclear because of the different or uncertain interpretation of what a child is (because definitions tend to vary from country to country, or from industry to industry). Another thing to note is some of the laws which are meant to protect children are unknown by the majority of the public, industrial, and or commercial sector, and the courts or institutions that are designed to administer young people’s rights are inappropriate, confusing, or ineffective.
Since its adoption in 1989 after more than sixty years of promotion, the United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child has been authorised by more governments (all except Somalia and the US) than any other human rights instrument.
Although almost 99% of the world’s children live in countries whose governments have committed themselves to the UN (United Nations)...