Protection
Protection refers to the
child’s protection from all forms of violence, exploitation and neglect. It
requires consideration for a continuum of measures for prevention, protection
and empowerment. Where children have experienced violence, exploitation or
neglect, protection measures support the recovery, rehabilitation and (re-) integration
of the child. Protection requires also access to complaints and reporting
mechanisms and access to justice where a child is affected by violence.
Articles under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- Article 11:
Protection from parental abduction and kidnapping
- Article 19:
Protection from all forms of violence
- Article 20:
Children deprived of family environment
- Article 21:
Adoption
- Article 22: Refugee
children
- Article 32:
Protection from child labour
- Article 33: Protection
from the use of harmful drugs and from being used in drug trade
- Article 34:
Protection from sexual exploitation
- Article 35:
Protection from abduction, sale and trafficking
- Article 36:
Protection from other forms of exploitation
- Article 37: Protection
from cruel or harmful punishment
The four dimensions
of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A scheme for analysis and
action
The 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.