[child-rights] High Commissioner for Human Rights launches major new study on Child Rights Convention

UNITED NATIONS Press release
11 June 2007

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will
launch today the Legislative History on the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, a new publication that aims to become an essential research
tool for children's rights advocates.

"This major study documents how the Convention on the Rights of the Child
came to represent a sea change in the way the international community was
prepared to address the rights of children", the High Commissioner writes
in the book's preface.

The two-volume set lists among the many major advances ushered in by the
Convention recognition, for the first time in a human rights treaty, of
the differential and often discriminatory impact that national
legislation, policies, attitudes and cultural traditions can have on
girls.

The Legislative History on the Convention on the Rights of the Child is
the first comprehensive record of the drafting of the Convention. It is
the result of 10 years of work by the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden. It will be launched at a
ceremony at the United Nations Office at Geneva on 11 June at 6.30 p.m.
The publication is available from the website of the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, http://www.ohchr.org