In practice, even those of us who refer to rights in our mission statements struggle to make the link between the high-level international legal rights frameworks and improvements in the lives of children in this country. But with the threat that the UK might abandon the European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's fifth periodic review against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) due later this year, we should all be paying closer attention to the opportunities presented by human rights legislation and the perils of losing them.
The UK was at the forefront of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and an early signatory of the UNCRC. We also have a rich history of the voluntary sector holding government to account against the rights frameworks. To this end, the Children's Rights Alliance for England is co-ordinating a voluntary sector response to the UK government's report to the UN submitted in May last year.
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