The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child guarantees the rights of children (short: CRC or Convention), that is of all persons under the age of 18. For the first time, children are recognized as independent legal subjects in an international human rights treaty. Children are the holders of rights which they exercise autonomously.
The present publication by the German Institute for Human Rights is the first of the series “ABC of Children’s Rights”. It provides information on the State’s obligation to monitor the implementation of the CRC and makes recommendations on what German bilateral development cooperation should undertake to fulfil this obligation, and how this should be done.
