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Article: The United Nations and the rights of the children.
- Article from:
- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
- Author:
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, and it has been signed by more countries than any other human rights treaty. It was signed by Australia in August 1990 and ratified the following December. Australia submitted its first report on compliance in December 1995, and an alternative report was submitted by Australian non-government organisations in October 1996. The Convention on the Rights of the Child contains fifty-four articles which aim (1)
"to protect children from economic exploitation and performance of
hazardous work; sexual exploitation including the use of children for
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