UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Launches Major New Study on Child Rights Convention
Geneva, 11 June 2007
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will launch
today the Legislative History on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
, a new publication that aims to become an essential research tool for
children's rights advocates.
"This major study documents how the
Convention on the Rights of the Child came to represent a sea change in the way
the international community was prepared to address the rights of children", the
High Commissioner writes in the book's preface.
The two-volume set lists
among the many major advances ushered in by the Convention recognition, for the
first time in a human rights treaty, of the differential and often
discriminatory impact that national legislation, policies, attitudes and
cultural traditions can have on girls.
The Legislative History on
the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first comprehensive record
of the drafting of the Convention. It is the result of 10 years of work by the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden.
It will be launched at a ceremony at the United Nations Office at Geneva on 11
June at 6.30 p.m. The publication is available from the website of the Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights, www.ohchr.org.