On Children’s Rights
Abstract
The idea of children’s rights emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a legal institution recognized around the world, children’s rights appeared at the turn of the nineteenth / twentieth century. Nowadays, we observe the large and ever growing process of their codification, both at the national and international level. One can find dozens of binding international agreements, numerous documents belonging to the so-called “soft law” and many domestic law acts regarding child rights issues and defining standards for their protection. Individual units, institutions and states are committed to their implementation and respect. The article presents the normative universal definition of childhood, the concept of children’s rights, the evolution and codification process of children’s rights and the means of their protection.
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