In 1924, the League of Nations (LON) adopted the Geneva Declaration, a historic document that recognised and affirmed for the first time the existence of rights specific to children and the responsibility of adults towards children. The United Nations (UN) was founded after World War II. It took over the Geneva Declaration in 1946. However, following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the advancement of rights revealed the shortcomings of the Geneva Declaration, which therefore had to be expanded. They thus chose to draft a second Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which again addressed the notion that “mankind owes to the Child the best that it has to give”. On 20 November 1959, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted unanimously by all 78 Member States of the United Nations General Assembly.
Collection: Texts
Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe.
Chronology: 20th century
Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education
Link: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/195831
Resource type: Website
Format: Texts
Source: United Nations
Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese and Arab
Date: 1959
Owner: Filippo Galletti (Modernalia)
Copyright: United Nations
Abstract: In 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It marked the first major international consensus on the fundamental principles of children’s rights.
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