Past event

Byre World: Children's Rights Free

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely supported international human rights treaty, ratified by every UN member state except the USA.

Kate Mackenzie of the Department of French at Strathclyde Law School and guest discuss what this actually means for children around the world and in Scotland.

Do children know their rights; how can they access them; and what will change with the proposed incorporation of the Convention into Scots law?

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