Convention on the Rights of the Child 4

Convention on the Rights of the Child

 

Article 23

1. States Parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child
should enjoy a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity,
promote self-reliance and facilitate the child’s active participation in
the community

2. States Parties recognize the right of the disabled child to special care
and shall encourage and ensure the extension, subject to available
resources, to the eligible child and those responsible for his or her care,
of assistance for which application is made and which is appropriate to the
child’s condition and to the circumstances of the parents or others caring
for the child.

3. Recognizing the special needs of a disabled child, assistance extended
in accordance with paragraph 2 of the present article shall be provided
free of charge, whenever possible, taking into account the financial
resources of the parents or others caring for the child, and shall be
designed to ensure that the disabled child has effective access to and
receives Education , training, health care services, rehabilitation
services, preparation for employment and recreation opportunities in a
manner conducive to the child’s achieving the fullest possible social
integration and individual development, including his or her cultural and
spiritual development.

4. States Parties shall promote, in the spirit of international
co-operation, the exchange of appropriate information in the field of
preventive health care and of medical, psychological and functional
treatment of disabled children, including dissemination of and access to
information concerning methods of rehabilitation, Education and vocational
services, with the aim of enabling States Parties to improve their
capabilities and skills and to widen their experience in these areas. In
this regard, particular account shall be taken of the needs of developing
countries.

Article 24

1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment
of illness and rehabilitation of health. States Parties shall strive to
ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right of access to such
health care services forth in the present Convention and in other
international human rights or humanitarian instruments to which the said
States are Parties.

2. For this purpose, States Parties shall provide, as they consider
appropriate, co-operation in any efforts by the United Nations and other
competent intergovernmental organizations or non-governmental organizations
cooperating with the United Nations to protect and assist such a child and
to trace the parents or other members of the family of any refugee child in
order to obtain information necessary for reunification with his or her
family. In cases where no parents or other members of the family can be
found, the child shall be accorded the same protection as any other child
permanently or temporarily deprived of his or her family environment for
any reason, as set forth in the present Convention.

2 States Parties shall pursue full implementation of this right and, in
particular, shall take appropriate measures:

(a) To diminish infant and child mortality;

(b) To ensure the provision of necessary medical assistance and health
care to all children with emphasis on the development of primary health
care;

(c) To combat disease and malnutrition, including within the framework of
primary health care, through, iner alia, the application of readily
available technology and through the provision of adequate nutritious foods
and clean drinking-water, taking into consideration the dangers and risks
of environmental pollution;

(d) To ensure appropriate pre-natal and post-natal health care for
mothers;

(e) To ensure that all segments of society, in particular parents and
children, are informed, have access to education and are supported in the
use of basic knowledge of child health and nutrition, the advantages of
breast-feeding, hygiene and environmental sanitation and the prevention of
accidents;

(f) To develop preventive health care, guidance for parents and family
planning education and services.
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3. States Parties shall take all effective and appropriate measures with a
view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of
children.

4. States Parties undertake to promote and encourage international
co-operation with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of
the right recognized in the present article. In this regard, particular
account shall be taken of the needs of developing countries.

Article 25

States Parties recognize the right of a child who has been placed by the
competent authorities for the purposes of care, protection or treatment of
his or her physical or mental health, to a periodic review of the treatment
provided to the child and all other circumstances relevant to his or her
placement.

Article 26

1. States Parties shall recognize for every child the right to benefit from
social security, including social insurance, and shall take the necessary
measures to achieve the full realization of this right in accordance with
their national law.

2. The benefits should, where appropriate, be granted, taking into account
the resources and the circumstances of the child and persons having
responsibility for the maintenance of the child, as well as any other
consideration relevant to an application for benefits made by or on behalf
of the child.

Article 27

1. States Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of
living adequate for the child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral and
social development.

2. The parent(s) or others responsible for the child have the primary
responsibility to secure, within their abilities and financial capacities,
the conditions of living necessary for the child’s development.

3. States Parties, in accordance with national conditions and within their
means, shall take appropriate measures to assist parents and others
responsible for the child to implement this right and shall in case of need
provide material assistance and support programmes, particularly with
regard to nutrition, clothing and housing.

4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to secure the
recovery of maintenance for the child from the parents or other persons
having financial responsibility for the child, both within the State Party
and from abroad. In particular, where the person having financial
responsibility for the child lives in a State different from that of the
child, States Parties shall promote the accession to international
agreements or the conclusion of such agreements, as well as the making of
other appropriate arrangements.

Article 28

1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to education, and with a
view to achieving this right progressively and on the basis of equal
opportunity, they shall, in particular:

(a) Make primary education compulsory and available free to all;

(b) Encourage the development of different forms of secondary education,
including general and vocational education, make them available and
accessible to every child, and take appropriate measures such as the
introduction of free education and offering financial assistance in case of
need;

(c) Make higher education accessible to all on the basis of capacity by
every appropriate means;

(d) Make educational and vocational information and guidance available
and accessible to all children;

(e) Take measures to encourage regular attendance at schools and the
reduction of drop-out rates.

2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that school
discipline is administered in a manner consistent with the child’s human
dignity and in conformity with the present Convention.

3. States Parties shall promote and encourage international co-operation in
matters relating to education, in particular with a view to contributing to
the elimination of ignorance and illiteracy throughout the world and
facilitating access to scientific and technical knowledge and modern
teaching methods. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of the
needs of developing countries.

 

Conclusion

Notes

See Also

References and Further Reading

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