According to CRAE, this will provide an opportunity to consider how the Human Rights Act has improved children's lives and to agree additional protection for children and young people. The alliance has long campaigned for the Convention on the Rights of the Child to be part of UK law. The UK agreed to follow this UN treaty in 1991.
CRAE is urging politicians to take this opportunity to fully safeguard the right of children and to protect childhood from growing inequality and social intolerance by persuading them to take action to make the convention part of UK law.
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