A BRIEF ANALYSIS ABOUT COVID-19 AND RIGHTS OF CHILDERN

FORENSIC SCIENCE

Children’s rights take into account the necessity of development of the child. The children thus have the right to live and to develop suitably physically and intellectually. Children’s rights plan to satisfy the essential needs for good development of the child, such as the access to an appropriate alimentation, to necessary care, to education, etc. Children’s rights consider the vulnerable character of the child. They imply the necessity to protect them. It means to grant particular assistance to them and to provide protection adapted to their age and to their degree of maturity. The recognition of the rights of the children Children’s rights were recognised after the 1st World war, with the adoption of the Declaration of Geneva, in 1924. The process of recognition of children’s rights continued thanks to the UN, with the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959. The year 1979 is declared International Year of the Child by the UN. That year saw a real change of spirit, as Poland makes the proposal to create a working group within the Human Rights Commission, which is in charge of writing an international charter. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989. Its 54 articles describe the economic, social and cultural rights of the children. Simultaneously the social safety nets, the relief programmes have to be amped up, aggressively done to reach the last family, so child vulnerability is addressed at root. To keep our children safe (in homes, in shelters, in camps, in the real world, in the cyber world), during the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond will require intention, public finance, collaboration and all hands on the deck.

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