Hi, I need help with essay on Children's Rights. Paper must be at least 2000 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Download file to see previous pages... (United Nations Children Fund, 2005)But children

Hi, I need help with essay on Children's Rights. Paper must be at least 2000 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

(United Nations Children Fund, 2005)

But children have been given a particular attention in the world. This is due to the fact that for along time now, the society has been neglecting children and in some societies the rights of children have been glossily ignored. The UN has made strides in protecting the rights of children and therefore it has created a separate body UNICEF which is given the mission of looking at the welfare of children. (Children are unbeatable Alliance, 2008)

It is in the sense that children are the inheritors of the world. A society that does not take care of its tomorrow is doomed to become extinct in the future. The main responsibility that any parent takes is to bring up a child who will inherit the world and leave it a better place than we have been able to build it. Therefore it is important to bring up children in a way that they feel a part of the world.

For along time, children have been treated as less equal beings in the society. They have been exposed to all forms of abuse regardless of the future that any community is moulding. This has had an effect in the generation that inherit the society as it has come to adapt the same social life that it has been exposed to when still young. It has been shown that children who are exposed to abuses are likely to result to the same means when they grow up since they come to adapt it as the accepted way of life. (Your Rights, 2008)

Children have not only being abused in the society but also in the family set up. Discrimination of children has been one of the forms of abuses that have been used against children. In this regard access to family resources has been dictated by the cultural beliefs and the values that are attached to some sexes. In many societies, males have been given preference over females due to the values that are attached to them. In India history has it that millions of females are still killed when young as they are considered a burden to the society. Wives all over the world have been divorced as they don't bear their husband the preferred child. The fact that we have fails to recognize the rights of each and every child right from the family set up has been the main cause of lack of observance of children rights in the society.

Children have been used in wars. In Uganda for example, the Lord's Resistance Army has been accused of recruiting child solders and using them in war. This is due to the fact that children are likely to offer less resistant and they are easy to condition in mind. In the same way, terrorist groups have been shown to prefer recruiting young children and inculcating a hatred attitude towards some people in preparation for them to commit terrorist atrocities which their sponsors cannot stand the chance of committing. Not only in war but children have been engaged in child labour especially in low income regions where they supplement the meagre income of their families. These children lack the basic education that can assist them to earn descent living later in life.

UNICIEF children' rights

Upon its creation, UNICIEF had a mission of advocating for the protection of the rights of children and help them to meet their basic needs.