The European standard of the protection of a child's rights

The European standard of protection of the rights of the child - resumé In my thesis I decided to focus on the child and his rights as how they are recognized in nowadays society crosswise the countries, mainly those of the european continent. In the first chapters I deal with the evolution of the international human rights legal instruments since the beginning of the twentieth century and I discover how the legal status of the child in the society had started to develop and how it has changed during the century stages. The child was at first only a mere object and was not entitled with possesion of the full rights, even on the contrary, it was the child who was in possession of his parents. The first international human rights documents adopted, began to guarantee the protection to the children in certain ways such as against a hard labour and they put forth the first protective rights such as the access to medical treatment and the access to education. Later on, after the second world war the major international human rights treaties were adopted and since then the child was accorded full enjoyment of his rights as a citizen. Chapter two presents the core document which concentrates upon a broad scope of the civic, political, social and economic and cultural rights of the child. It is the United Nations..