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Principle

Children’s rights and care

We start from the view that children and people who depend on care hold rights of their own, and that services should protect them from abuse and harmful dependency.

The proposal

Children and people who depend on care hold rights of their own; family support, alternative care and service organisation must be subordinate to their interests and protect them from abuse or harmful prolonged placements.

How to read it

Sources identify relevant rights, methods, findings or precedents. They do not automatically establish the full World4Humans formulation. Where the project makes its own choice, that choice remains open to criticism and revision.

Sources and literature

Authority
Children’s rights framework plus other relevant primary or interpretive sources.
Relationship
Established standards, methods or components exist; the wider World4Humans formulation is not established by them alone.

Cited publications

  • United Nations, 1989

    United Nations, 1989. Convention on the Rights of the Child. United Nations. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/crc.pdf

  • WHO, 2022

    World Health Organization. 2022. WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240045989

  • WHO, s.d.

    World Health Organization. Supporting Parents initiative (web resource, no publication year stated). https://www.who.int/initiatives/supporting-parents

  • UN General Assembly, 2010

    United Nations General Assembly. 2010. Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, A/RES/64/142. https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n09/470/35/pdf/n0947035.pdf

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