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Implementing children's rights and health
Gerison Lansdown
National
Coordinator, Children's Rights Alliance for England, Children's
Rights Office, Chancery House, 319 City Road, London EC1V 1LJ, UK
Correspondence to: Dr Lansdown email: gerison@crights.org.uk
Accepted 5 June 2000
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Making a commitment to respect the rights of children has
profound implications for the status of children in our society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of health care where the
decisions and actions of professionals impact on children's lives in
profound, intimate, and powerful ways. The UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child which was ratified by the UK Government in 1991 places a
clear obligation on health authorities and practitioners to evolve
policy and practice in accordance with the human rights of
children.1 Many of the principles embodied in the
Convention are not new. (Many of the rights embodied in the Convention
on the Rights of the Child derive from earlier human rights
treaties
for example, the UN International Covenants on Civil and
Political Rights and on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.) They
are already implemented as a matter of good practice by some health
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