Nigeria has ample financial and human capacity to tackle basic child survival, development and protection challenges, yet there is inadequate government engagement and accountability in service delivery and management.
Once you start creating a society in which rich people's children get biological advantages over other children, basic notions of human equality go out the window.
Egypt, they have now learned, will not accept an exclusionary party which seeks to deny women -- the mothers of their children -- basic civil rights, human rights and dignity.
Basic Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Such strong-arm, immoral tactics do not take the well-being of children into consideration, and they violate a child's basic human right to grow up in a family.
By Tee Shiao Eek KUALA LUMPUR, 10 December 2008 – Children's basic human rights, as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), are legally binding and governments that have ratified the Convention are obliged to bring their legislation, policy and practice into accordance with these standards.
FCD has a special interest in children in low-income, working families, particularly those families that are struggling to meet their children's basic human needs.
For too many children, the basic human right to education is a pipe dream, an idea that has not become reality.
"Child abuse is an abhorrent act because it violates a child's basic human rights on so many levels," declares Mr Youssouf Oomar, UNICEF Malaysia Representative.
The Millennium Development Goals, as they were known, were an attempt to address the most basic requirements of human life: reducing the child-mortality rate by two-thirds, reversing the course of the AIDS epidemic, vastly increasing the number of people with regular access to safe drinking water.
