One of the most deserving and applicable categories of human beings, which deserves most of the rights are children. The major concern for the children is that they cannot speak for themselves or stand up for their rights. According to the Latin term, the word child has been derived from the word ‘infants’ which generally means one who cannot speak. Thus, children are categorized as one who cannot speak. Therefore, it is extremely easier to withdraw or violate rights of the children. The major issues with rights of the children has been observed that, in most cases, they are not able to speak for themselves, in addition, most of the children are already un aware of their basic rights, therefore it is easier to manipulate them and violate their rights.
Thus, in order to protect and provide rights to the children, a separate department had been organized, entitled as The Convention on The Rights of The Child, proposed in 1989. Brisbane Family Lawyers act, A child can be defined as, ‘A child can be any human being, who is below the age of eighteen years, and until the laws and regulations, government’s policies are not applicable on him legally’. In addition, a person is considered as a child until he gets the right to vote.
In general aspect, children’s rights can be defined as, authority of the children to live a life free from neglect, abuse, hunger, poverty and other inhumane behavior. In order to provide the basic rights to the children, an initiative as been taken after the First World War, when Declaration of Geneva occurred in 1924, and later UN also participated in this act by promoting the movement for rights of the children and in the Declaration of Children’s Rights in 1959 has been proposed in support of this. According to these legislations, children have been provided with number of facilities and flexibilities within the laws of the government, as they are considered as those categories of people in any society, who are unaware of their basic rights and cannot speak for themselves. In such cases, governments of different countries decided to provide all the necessities to children free of cost and take their responsibility on the government itself, so that none of them will be died from poverty and hunger, in addition, child labor was also banned from the society according to these acts.
Thus, in order to protect and provide rights to the children, a separate department had been organized, entitled as The Convention on The Rights of The Child, proposed in 1989. Brisbane Family Lawyers act, A child can be defined as, ‘A child can be any human being, who is below the age of eighteen years, and until the laws and regulations, government’s policies are not applicable on him legally’. In addition, a person is considered as a child until he gets the right to vote.
In general aspect, children’s rights can be defined as, authority of the children to live a life free from neglect, abuse, hunger, poverty and other inhumane behavior. In order to provide the basic rights to the children, an initiative as been taken after the First World War, when Declaration of Geneva occurred in 1924, and later UN also participated in this act by promoting the movement for rights of the children and in the Declaration of Children’s Rights in 1959 has been proposed in support of this. According to these legislations, children have been provided with number of facilities and flexibilities within the laws of the government, as they are considered as those categories of people in any society, who are unaware of their basic rights and cannot speak for themselves. In such cases, governments of different countries decided to provide all the necessities to children free of cost and take their responsibility on the government itself, so that none of them will be died from poverty and hunger, in addition, child labor was also banned from the society according to these acts.
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