Struggle for Children’s Rights

Children are given rights through the Convention of the Rights of the Child. In these rights, are rights that only children have. There are over 42 rights assigned to children alone. Among these rights are topics such as survival and development, drug use, free expression, the child’s best interest, and violence. This essay discusses two books, which examine these rights and the ways they are influenced.

Should children have the right to make our world a better place by voting? Children are very open minded and at a young age they can act like sponges, soaking up important information such as life skills like responsibility and the ability to make tough decisions. As we’ve seen from the tragic shootings from the past couple of months children can be very unexpected, showing brave actions and the ability to public speak with ease if taught the right way. The United States should allow children 12 and older should be able to vote for their leaders because these children can present their ideas and make many changes to the laws and make civilization better, children can help to make a more definitive answer to our election while feeling like they

As a conclusion, early marriage of girls and boys impairs the realization and enjoyment of virtually every one of their rights. The imposition of a marriage partner on children or adolescents who are in no way ready for married life, and whose marriage will deprive them of freedom, opportunity for personal development, and other rights including health and well-being, education, and participation in civic life. This Presentation can be as a starting-point, drawing attention to a practice that has been neglected by both women’s and children’s rights campaigners in recent decades. It is hoped that it will provide an incentive for a campaign to prevent early marriage and end the silent misery of millions of girls in many countries around the world, to open up new horizons for them, and contribute to the development of policies, programs and advocacy to bring this

The Children’s Bill of Rights is not in place properly for the children of Ethiopia. They have a dirty environment, no right to an education, and terrible living conditions. Human rights themselves are under question in Ethiopia anyway. Innocent protesters or demonstrators are shot and killed by the police force. Needless to say things aren’t very good for the children considering that the government cannot be

Agreements such as this can lift the burden of paying for a girl’s education, thus making it easier for parents to choose to educate their children, instead of marrying them off. In rural areas of underdeveloped countries, the practice of child marriage is on the rise due to the fact that most of the girls being married off are not educated enough to know there are laws in place to protect them. Being oblivious of their rights, children are being married off before they are able to comprehend the harm brought upon them. Having knowledge of laws that protects them from being married before they are ready can assist them in taking steps to prevent the occurrence of early marriage. Educating young girls about their rights is one way of ensuring that one child may be kept safe from having to face the atrocities of marriage with mostly older men. We can accomplish this by setting up organizations that can go to different villages and provide information on how marriage at a young age can have negative effects on the health of young wives. These organizations could even work with the government to provide shelters for girls who are trying to escape the wickedness of early marriage.

Rena Silverman, in his article Millions of Young Girls Forced into Marriage wrote that “Driven largely by ……….family members”. The physical and emotional consequences can be very fatal. Since some decade, people give their daughter in forced marriage, when they are generally poor. This being the Dot is a tradition in a marriage will make the fiancée 's family meet its needs. Forced marriage is to be married for the cattle, food or money, also, for the transmission of belongings. After the husband death, the son of the legal wife will inherit of all his property; which will become her own. For this reason parents give their daughter in marriage to have money to stay alive. Yana T. Child marriage problem: causes and consequences said “Parents who cannot provide …………. to ensure she is supported”.

There has been an ongoing debate with policy makers, that children are not all about ’needs’ that must be met nonetheless they have their own rights as individuals, concerns, priorities and aspirations. The rights discourse of a child includes the universal theory of three P’s which are, Provision of suitable support and services for healthy development, Protection from mistreatment and abuse and the Participation in the choices made about their upbringing and care (Stainton Rogers, 2009). Furthermore (Smith, 2013) states the right of every child consists of a standard living condition which benefits physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development in a holistic manner.

Adoption is an excellent way to overrule inequality of children and solving violence of children without parental care in our society. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”) regulates a commitment protecting all the children rights including The Universal Declaration of Human Rights issues the law about common concept for human rights that children “are entitled to special care and assistance” (Todres, 2007). Firstly, family environment is the most important factor to children, exceptionally unparented children. Since family is the first institution which teach and guide children’s behavior before they face with other institutions in the real society. For unparented children, they do not have the family to guide them as parented children and it can be the cause of children without parental care to get the violence easier. Adoption can clean up this problem as adoptive parents can teach the expression to them. Secondly, Survival and development of the children including education and health are other factors which every children should get because it is the basic constituent especially, education and health. As there are the foundation which improve and protect children’s life such as getting knowledge for occupation in the future, getting ability to consideration and getting the health care

Discrimination towards woman in nowadays life is like a cancer. It is attacking without us knowing and realizing about it. One of it is a child marriage. Child marriage is a serious human rights violation affecting children’s and women’s rights to health, education, equality, non-discrimination and to live free from violence and exploitation

When one thinks of marriage, they think of two adults being in love and deciding to spend the rest of their lives together. To most, marriage is a choice, but according to the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), one third of the girls, under the age of eighteen, in the world marriage is not all they would have dreamt of. All around the world girls under the age of eighteen are getting married. Girls are getting married to strangers, to men drastically older than them and also unwillingly. This can be and is extremely dangerous. A person under the age of eighteen should not be allowed to marry simply because they are not mature nor developed enough to handle adult situations. These girls are having to be put in situations that they do not understand how to solve. Ending child marriage requires work across all sectors and at all

Child marriage is the marriage, usually forced but may not be, between one party of under 18 and another over the age of 18. There are many reasons for child marriage which can range anywhere from social or religious pressure to safety, either economic or physical, for the girl and her family. As well as how many families find girls to be economic strains as the families need to provide a dowry for the girl. Young women tend to not be allowed to work as they are considered worthless and a burden, especially considering that sons carry the family name and are seen as a sign of fertility in most societies. This is an

You can stop this! We can’t lose any more of our girls to become scapegoats or carry our burdens for someone else. Religion, culture, lineage. These are the three main words used to justify this atrocity that is child marriage. I passionately argue that child marriage needs to cease and that we need to fight to terminate it.

Advocates for Children is a non-profit organization committed to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. More than 70 percent of the children who died as a result of child abuse or neglect were two years old or younger. (childhelp.org). Congressman Robert E. “Bud” Cramer (AL), was a District Attorney, he organized an effort to create a better system to help abused children in 1985. He became frustrated being a prosecutor, having trouble prosecuting child abuse cases and getting guilty verdicts. The criminal justice systems were not working together effectively, which created frightening experience for children. “Bud” collaborated with the law enforcement, criminal justice, child protective service, medical and mental health worker

Every young girl asks for a new baby Annabel or a new bicycle on the run up to their 11th birthday, but girls all over the world just want the right to an education and a free life. In the developing world girls are getting married to older men from ages 30 up. This can end their chances of an education and puts them at a much greater risk of isolation and violence. For girls under the age of 15 the incidence of an early forced marriage is one in nine; The girls in these undeveloped countries can be married as young as 5 years old. It is time to stop these unforgivable marriages.

Child brides are a little voiced problem that occur around the world. Fourteen million girls become child brides every year, a number that is increasing due to the growing populations of countries where child marriage is common (Fisher). I chose to focus on child brides specifically in Africa and the Middle East due to the high instances of child marriages in those parts of the world. In my research I also found that child brides are very common in South Asia and South America as well. In Niger, Chad, Mali, Bangladesh, Guinea, Central African Republic, Mozambique, and Nepal over half of girls are married before they turn eighteen (Fisher).This is largely due to traditional tribal practices, cultural norms, and an overall lack of education.