International protection of children rights in the United Nations

The article has been prepared by Anna Michalska as a part of work elaborated by the staff of the Ghair of International Law of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań in course of the studies on problems of internationail family protection. The work consists of two parts. Provisions of binding .international acts concerning rights of children are discussed in the first one. It is both the case of declarations of children rights of 1924 and 1959 and of acts of general character. Appropriate provisions of the Universal Declaration of Humain Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are discussed among the latter acts. The second part of the work dwells on those provisions of the draft of covenant on children rights which have already been adopted by the Special Working Group which was appointed in 1979 by the Commission of Human Rights.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201