On 19 November 2009, the eve of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Baroness Joan Walmsley introduced the Children's Rights Bill in the House of Lords. The bill, if passed, will incorporate the CRC, along with its two Optional Protocols (on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and on the involvement of children in armed conflict) into domestic law.
The CRC is the most comprehensive international instrument concerning children and contains many human rights standards that state parties are legally obliged to respect, protect and fulfil. It was ratified by the UK in 1991, making the UK government legally bound to act in accordance with its provisions. Article 4 requires governments to "undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures" to implement the convention.
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