The Developing Jurisprudence of the Rights of the Child

Authors

Cynthia Price Cohen, Childrights International Research Institute

First Page

1

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Worldwide concern for the well-being of children prompted the United Nations to declare 1979 as the International Year of the Child. This act set in motion a process that is not only affecting the way the world looks at children, but that could ultimately impact on the implementation of all United Nations human rights treaties. While the original intent of the International Year of the Child was simply to sensitize the world community to the state of the world's children, the actual outcome has had effects far beyond the mere compilation of data. The needs of children have become the focus of world attention, and recognition that children have unique human rights has been enshrined in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.2 This international treaty established a new human rights standard, both in its substantive content and in its implementation procedure.

Recommended Citation

Cynthia Price Cohen, The Developing Jurisprudence of the Rights of the Child, 6 St. Thomas L. Rev. 1 (1994).
Available at: https://scholarship.stu.edu/stlr/vol6/iss1/2