The Effects of COVID19 on Child's Rights and the Protective Strategies; by Emphasizing on the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor. Kharazmi University

Abstract

Children on the basis of non-perfection in their growth and development are more potent for vulnerability and need protection and attention. Disabled children based on their physical or mental impairments need more and special protections. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Protection of Disabled Act2018 are legal documents which concerns disability in Iran. The first one is a general document which considered children in Article 7. The second one is a specialized child rights documents and its 23 article belongs to disable child. The third one also has a general approach and child-related issues are inferred by the articles’ interpretation. This article aims to analyze three documents and to find how the BIC is considered. The findings show that although the Protection of Disabled Act is ratified recently and after Iran’s accession to the CRPD, it has general and non- expert approach with many gaps in this regard. Besides, the approach of CRC and CRPD are to empower disable child while the Act 2018’s approach is solely to protect disable child.

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