YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS - Part 1
Introduction
This third issue of the 2010-2011 Snapshots on Minnesota Youth series conti nues with the explorati on of how Minnesota fares with the rights and protecti ons aff orded all children under the United Nati on’s
Conventi on for the Rights of the Child.
In 1989, world leaders convened in acknowledgement that youth under age
18 have rights and need special care and protecti on that adults do not. The
Conventi on resulted in 54 Arti cles and two optional Protocols that assert children everywhere have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protecti on from harmful infl uences, abuse and exploitati on; and to parti cipate fully in family, cultural and social life.
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