Article 29: Goals of education

Education must be directed to: development of the child’s personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential, development of respect for the child’s parents, his or her own cultural identity, and for civilizations different from his or her own;

Article 23: Children with disabilities

The disabled child has the right to special care and to enjoy a full and decent life and facilitate the child’s active participation in the community.

Article 40: Juvenile justice

The right of every child alleged as, accused of, or recognized as having infringed the penal law to be treated in a manner consistent with the promotion of the child’s sense of dignity and worth, which reinforces the child’s respect for the human rights taking into account the child’s age and the desirability of promoting the child’s reintegration in society and providing vocational training programmes and institutional care.

Article 15: Freedom of association

The right of the child to freedom of association and restrictions may be placed on the exercise of these rights other than those imposed in conformity with the law and which are necessary in the interests of national security or public safety.

Article 32: Child labour

The right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical development.

Article 10: Family reunification

The right of child and his or her parents to enter or leave a State Party for the purpose of family reunification.

Article 25: Review of treatment in care

The right of a child who has been placed by the competent authorities for the purposes of care, protection or treatment of his or her physical or mental health, to a periodic review of treatment.

Article 37: Definition and punishment

No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age. No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily and shall have the right to maintain contact with his or her family.

Article 26: Social security

The right of the child to benefit from social security, including social insurance.

Article 11: Kidnapping

States Parties shall take measures to combat the illicit transfer and non-return of children abroad.

Article 35: Abduction, sale and trafficking

The right of the child to prevented from the abduction, the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form.

Article 3 : Best Interests of the child

All actions concerning child and the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.

States Parties must undertake to ensure the child such protection and the necessary care as is necessary for his or her well-being in case of absence of the parents’ care.

Article 13: Freedom of expression

The child shall have the right to freedom of expression of all kinds, ask for information, acquire and disseminate them with the laws.

Article 39: Rehabilitation of child victims

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to promote physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of a child victi

Article 22: Refugee children

States Parties shall take appropriate measures to ensure that a refugee child shall receive appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance in the enjoyment of applicable rights set forth in the present Convention.

Article 17: Access to information

The right of the child to access to information from a diversity of national and international sources, especially those aimed at the promotion of his or her social, spiritual, moral well-being, physical and mental health.

Article 7: Registration, name, nationality, care

The child shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.

Article 6: Survival and development

Every child has the inherent right to life and States Parties shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.

Article 18: Parental responsibilities

Both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child

Article 1 :   Meaning of the Child

A child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.