{"id":8343,"date":"2011-03-23T21:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanium.org\/en\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:55:12","slug":"adoption","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/convention\/adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/h1>\n<h2>Adoption of the Convention<\/h2>\n<p><strong>On the 20 November 1989, on behalf of the Social and voluntary Commission, the General meeting of the United Nations adopts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/convention\/text\/\">Convention on the Rights of the Child <\/a>and opens it with the signature, the ratification and the States admission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The text of the Convention (54 articles) was adopted in New York, by acclamation (without vote), unanimously of the member States of the United Nations, in resolution 44\/25.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5552\" title=\"Adoption of the Convention on children rights by the General Meeting of United Nations on  the 20 November 1989\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/portail-fr\/AG-ONU-CIDE-20-11-1989.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"111\" \/>The year 1989 is symbolic because it is the year of the 30 anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/declaration-rights-child-2\/\">Children Rights Declaration <\/a>and the 10 anniversary of the international year of children.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the Convention of 1989 goes further than the Declaration of 1959 : it includes new rights and recognizes for the first time the Children as subject to rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"toggle\"><a onclick=\"show_voir_aussi('voir_aussi_box')\" href=\"javascript:show_voir_aussi(id)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"voir_aussi_box\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div id=\"stb-body-box-4716\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/childrens-rights-history\/\">Children\u2019s Rights History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/convention\/issues\/\">Issues of the Convention on Child Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/convention\/beginnings\/\">Beginnings of the Convention on Child Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/convention\/adoption\/\">Adoption of the Convention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanium.org\/en\/convention\/signatory-states\/\">Signatory states and parties to the Convention<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"toggle\"><a onclick=\"show_voir_aussi('voir_aussi_box')\" href=\"javascript:show_voir_aussi(id)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"voir_aussi_box\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div id=\"stb-body-box-2068\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/why\/why_rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">Unicef, Child Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Children%27s_rights\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia, Child Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child\">Wikipedia, Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"toggle\"><a onclick=\"show_sources('sources_box')\" href=\"javascript:show_sources(id)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"sources_box\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div id=\"stb-body-box-3710\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/rightsite\/sowc\/pdfs\/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Unicef, State of the World\u2019s Children 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Convention on the Rights of the Child Adoption of the Convention On the 20 November 1989, on behalf of the Social and voluntary Commission, the General meeting of the United Nations adopts the Convention on the Rights of the Child and opens it with the signature, the ratification and the States admission. 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