Development
Development refers to all
aspects of human and social development and the related needs of the child to
develop their personal identity, skills and capacities. This includes
development through education and training, social relations as a member of a
family and community, as well as cultural and religious or spiritual factors.
The possibility to have perspectives for the near and longer-term future and to
make life projects are essential preconditions for development.
Articles under the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- Article 5:
Appropriate guidance and direction in accordance with the evolving capacities
of the child
- Article 7: Right to
a name, birth registration, nationality and care
- Article 8:
Preservation of identity
- Article 9: Right to
live with the parents
- Article 10: Right
to family reunification
- Article 18:
Parental responsibilities and state assistance
- Article 28: Right
to education
- Article 29: Goals
of education
- Article 30: Rights
of children belonging to minority or indigenous groups
- Article 31: Right
to leisure time, play and culture
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
Handout1: 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.