Primary needs
Primary needs are physical
and economic needs that have to be met to guarantee the child’s life and
survival, as a basis for development. Primary needs include food, clean water,
clean air and a healthy environment, accommodation, health care and treatment,
as well as an adequate living standard and economic means. A child may have
specific needs related to a health condition, disability or other individual
factors.
Articles under the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- Article 6: Right to
life, survival and development
- Article 23: Rights
of children with disabilities
- Article 24: Right
to health and health care services
- Article 25: Review
of treatment in care
- Article 26: Right
to social security
- Article 27: Right
to adequate standard of living
The four dimensions
of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A scheme for analysis and
actionThe EU training programme for guardians of
unaccompanied children introduces the four dimensions of the UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child as a tool for training, analysis and action. Developing confidence in using this systemic and multi-disciplinary
scheme for analysis empowers the guardians to form an opinion that is guided
by the rights and needs of the child. It supports them in taking a stand on
different situations, procedures and decisions concerning the child.
- responding to the primary
needs of the child to ensure the child’s survival and enable the
child to live a healthy life;
- promoting the development of the child, their resources, potentials and evolving capacities, in
support of the child’s transition to adulthood and independent life;
- enabling and facilitating the participation of the child in all matters that concern the
child while safeguarding the right of the child to be heard and to have
their views taken into account;
- ensuring the protection of the child from all forms of neglect, violence and exploitation.
The four dimensions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
See
also:
Level 1: Child rights principles
Reference:
EU training and learning platform for guardians of unaccompanied children Chapter 1: Session 1.1. Session 1.1. The human rights of the child
Handout 1: The rights of the child and the four dimensions of the UNCRC
Literature:
FRA
(European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) (2015), Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child, Luxembourg, Publications Office of the
European Union (Publications Office).
United
Nations (UN), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 20 November 1989.
Charter
of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 2012/C 326/02, OJ C 326, 26 October 2012.
United
Nations (UN), Committee on the Rights of the Child (2005), General Comment No. 6 (2005), Treatment of
unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin,
CRC/GC/2005, 1 September 2005.
United
Nations (UN), Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 12
(2009) on the right of the child to be heard, CRC/C/GC/12, 20 July 2009.
United
Nations (UN), Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 13
(2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence, CRC/C/GC/13, 18 April 2011.
United
Nations (UN), Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 14
(2003) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a
primary consideration, CRC /C/GC/14, 29 May 2013.