History of Child Rights in Twentieth century

In the early twentieth century, moves began to promote the idea of children’s rights as distinct form those of adults and as requiring explicit recognition. The Polish educationalist Janusz Korczk wrote of the rights of children in his book ‘How to love child (Warsaw, 1919); a later book was entitled the Child Right to respect (Warsaw, 1929). In 1917, following the Russian Revolution, the Moscow branch of the organization Proletkult produced a Declaration of Children’s Rights. However, the first effective attempt to promote children’s rights was the Declaration of the rights of the Child, drafted by Eglantyne Jebb in 1923 and adopted by the League of Nations in 1924. This was accepted by the United Nation son its formation and updated in 1959, and replaced with a more extensive UN convention on the rights of the Child in 1989.

From the formation of the United Nation in the 1940s and extending to present day, the Children’s Rights Movement has become global in focus. Children around the world have increasingly become engaged in illegal, forced child labor, genital mutilation, military service, and sex trafficking. Several international organizations have rallied to the assistance of the children. They include Save the Children, Free the Children, and the Children’s Defense Fund.

The Child Rights Information network, or CRIN, formed in 1983, is the group of 2000 non-governmental organization from around the world, which advocate for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Organization’s report on the countries’ progress towards implementation, as do governments that have ratified the Convention. Every 5 years reporting to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is required for Government.