October 9th, 2008
Call for child rights to become law
A charity has called for children’s rights to be incorporated in to UK law. The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has asked the Government for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to be legally recognised. This comes after recent recommendations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the British Government to follow other European countries in implementing the law. David Bull, Executive Director of Unicef UK, said despite good intentions, children’s rights are still not at the heart of policymaking in the UK. “The sheer number of recommendations made in the UN Committee’s report shows the scale and urgency of the problem,” he added. Assessing how well the Government have implemented the UNCRC since 2002, the committee made the suggestion ahead of its next assessment in 2014. Gordon Brown has committed to halving child poverty in the UK by 2010 and has vowed to put a stop to it altogether by 2020.
8 October 2008
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