Links to full texts of CRC book
The following are full texts, where available, of articles abstracted in A Guide to General Comment 7: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood , a joint publication of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF and the Bernard van Leer Foundation. Numbers refer to the chapter numbers in the book for ease of reference.
1.A. Norberto I. Liwski: Implementing child rights in early childhood
1.A. María Francisca Ize-Charrin: Even the youngest children have rights
1.B. Patrice L. Engle: Comprehensive policy implications of child rights
1.B. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli: A classroom’s worth of children under is dying every minute
1.B. Peter Laugharn: Our children are the future
3.A.1. Committee for Legal Aid to Poor and Forum for Crèche and Childcare Services: Exploring rights of the child in early childhood
3.A.2. Directorate of Early Education, Province of Buenos Aires: Children have a right to childhood
3.A.2. Bruce Abramson: The Convention rights of babies and young children: three key issues
3.A.2. Canadian Child Care Federation: Keeping our promises: rights from the start
3.A.2. African Group at the United Nations (Geneva): The legal acknowledgement of the child
3.A.3 European Association for Children in Hospital: Steps for implementing the child’s right to health
3.A.3. Elaine Petitat-Côté: The Committee’s ‘concluding observations’ in relation to the health of children
3.A.3. Rubén D. Efron: The rights of children with special needs and the importance of play
3.A.3. Vera Mišurcová: Implementation of children’s traditional games in early childhood
3.A.3. Lothar Friedrich Krappmann: The right of the young child to rest, leisure and play
3.A.4. SOS Kinderdorf International: Examples of early childhood education
3.A.5. K. Shanmuga Velayutham: Right to participation among young children in India
3.A.5. IPPA, the Early Childhood Organization: Implementing a focus on participation
3.A.5. Commission on Early Childhood, City of Geneva: Early childhood: rights as a pathway to citizenship?
3.A.5. Council of Europe: Children, participation, projects: how to make it work
3.B. Luciana Luisa Papeschi and Michele Trimarchi: Respect the rights of the child, and the child will learn to respect the rights of others
3.B. Peter Newell: End all corporal punishment of children
3.B. Human Rights Watch: hiv-positive children in India
3.B. India Alliance for Child Rights: India’s girl child: the imbalance in the ratio of girls to boys
3.C. Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII: Starting sound practices early
3.C. Chris Gardiner: Institutional care
3.C. Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers): Children of imprisoned mothers
3.C. SRG Welfare Society of Bangladesh: Poor and destitute working children in Bangladesh
3.C. Razia Ismail Abbasi: What has changed for girls in India in the decade since Beijing and Cairo?
3.D. Bulu Sareen: The status of the young child in India
3.D. Government of Venezuela: Early childhood in the Venezuelan education sector: implementing child rights
3.D. UNICEF New Zealand National Committee and Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa: About early childhood: the view from a developed country with minorities
3.D. Gustavo Mascó: Two projects in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires
3.D. National Children’s Trust, Costa Rica: Inputs to the working groups of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
3.D. Carol Bower: Young children in South Africa
3.D. Victoria Martínez: Early childhood in a human rights perspective
3.D. UNICEF: Examples of good practices (Brazil, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Uzbekistan)
3.E. German League for the Child: Recommendations to amend Convention articles
3.E. Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations for the Rights of the Child: Proposal to amend or improve formulations of Convention articles
4. Kimberly Browning: Longitudinal studies on early childhood programmes: an international perspective
4. Martin Woodhead: Early childhood development: a question of rights
4. Gerison Lansdown: The evolving capacities of the child
4. Caroline Arnold: Positioning early childhood development in the 21st century
