The Children's Rights Movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgment, expansion, of the rights of children around the world. It begun in the early part of the last century and has been an effort by government organizations, advocacy groups, academics, ETC. And judges to construct a system of laws and policies to protect the lives of children. While the historical definition of child has varied, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Says that "A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. There are no definitions of other terms used to describe young people such as "teenagers" or "youth" in international law.
This year's focus of National Children's Week is Article 17 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. You probably don't know what that is off the top of your head but it's incredibly important and it's actually one of the reasons that BtN even exists!
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