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Weekly Action Alerts
September 16, 2010
Implementation of the CRC has led governments to change and formulate laws, policies, and programs which meet the specific needs of children in their country.www.childrightscampaign.org
September 8, 2010
In recognition of children's special status, the United Nations commenced efforts in 1979 to develop an inclusive, legally-binding human rights treaty for all the world's children. Ten years later, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 and instituted as international law in 1990. www.childrightscampaign.org.
September 1, 2010
View the UNICEF Photo Essay - The Rights of Children: www.OMEP-USA.org.
August 23, 2010
Visit the OMEP website - www.OMEP-USA.org. Look for the section on "Children's Rights."July 28, 2010
What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?The CRC is an internationally recognized agreement between nations which establishes a comprehensive set of goals for individual nations to achieve on behalf of their children.
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July 21, 2010
Join the Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the Rights of the Child -- other organizations that are "partners" include (but are certainly not limited to):- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Amnesty International
- ACEI
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters
- Child Welfare League of America
- Heifer Project International
- NAEYC
- OMEP
- Save the Children
- UNICEF