Article 42: Knowledge of rights

States Parties undertake to make the principles and provision of the Convention widely known, by appropriate and active means, to adults and children alike.

Article 12: Respect for the views of the child

States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views related to his or her interests including the judicial or administrative measures

Article 24: Health and health services

The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health. To diminish infant and child mortality, and ensure the provision of necessary medical assistance and health care to all children, to combat malnutrition and the appropriate health care for mothers.

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 38: War and armed conflicts

States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of fifteen years do not take a direct part in, and to ensure protection and care of children who are affected by an armed conflict.

Article 2 : Non-discrimination

All the rights are applicable on children without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parent’s or legal guardian’s race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national,
ethnic or social origin, property, or disability

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 9: Separation from parents

States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents, that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child, and respect the right of the child to maintain contact with both parents on a regular basis

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 41: Respect for superior national standards

Nothing in the present Convention shall affect any provisions which are more conducive to the realization of the rights 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.

Article 28: Right to education

The right of the child to education, by making primary education compulsory and available free to all, encourage the development of different forms of secondary education, the access of higher education all on the basis of his or her capacity, and to ensure that school discipline is administered in a manner consistent with the child’s human dignity.

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 20: Children deprived of family environment

Special protection and assistance must be provided by the State to ensure the alternative care for such a child taking into consideration the child’s upbringing and to the child’s ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background.

Article 16: Right to privacy

No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, or correspondence, or to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation.

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 34: Sexual exploitation

The right of the child to be protected from all forms of sexual exploitation.

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 11: Kidnapping

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

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