Ten years ago, Save the Children asked me to write a book about young children's rights. How many of the rights in the 54 articles of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) apply to young children and babies? It is often thought that rights begin for children aged seven, 12 or 16 years.
'Provision' rights involve health, welfare and education, clean water and nutritious food, an adequate standard of living, and support for parents to enable them to give basic care to their children. 'Protection' rights guard against neglect, abuse, discrimination and violence. Everyone tends to support these rights for all children.
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