Introduction to Children’s Rights
In celebration of the 18th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was formally adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November 20, 1989; and Brazil’s own Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA) which was implemented as National Law in July of the following year, this page hopes to act as a public space to both celebrate and publicize the rights of children everywhere.
Children living in Rio’s most impoverished favelas are no different and need to be treated with equal care and attention as those children who have been blessed with unlimited love and financial resources in any other city or country respectively. This page in particular hopes to call attention to the very basic human rights of children everywhere.
The ComunidadeSegura website, out of necessity and urgency, focuses its work on children to issues concerning human security. In particular, this means security from armed conflict which is tragically so prevalent here in Rio and thus so relevant to their human security work as a whole.
In the field of Human Rights, this work is generally referred to as Peacekeeping, in that it aims to aid or modify an existing human rights abuse. To compliment this dedicated work from the team at ComunidadeSegura, this page; instead, aims to focus on the fundamental rights of children and hopes to become a Peace building and educational tool for the general public.