Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Attributes

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: General Principles

Chapter 2: Article 2 - The right to non-discrimination
Chapter 3: Article 3 - The best interest of the child
Chapter 4: Article 6 - The rights to life, survival, and development
Chapter 5: Article 12 - The right to be heard

Part 2: Civil and Political Rights

Chapter 6: Article 7 - The right to a name, nationality, and to know and be cared for by parents
Chapter 7: Article 8 - The right to preservation of identity
Chapter 8: Article 13 - The right to freedom of expression
Chapter 9: Article 14 - The right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion
Chapter 10: Article 15 - The right to freedom of association and assembly
Chapter 11: Article 16 - The right to protection of privacy
Chapter 12: Article 17 - The right to access to diverse sources of information

Part 3: Family Environment and Alternative Care Rights

Chapter 13: Article 5 - The right to parental guidance consistent with the evolving capacity of the child
Chapter 14: Article 9 - The right not to be separated from parents
Chapter 15: Article 10 - The right to family reunification
Chapter 16: Article 11 - The right to protection from illicit transfer and non-return of children abroad
Chapter 17: Article 18 - Rights concerning parental responsibility
Chapter 18: Article 20 - Rights concerning children deprived of their family environment
Chapter 19: Article 21 - Adoption
Chapter 20: Article 25 - The right to periodic review of treatment and all other circumstances of placement

Part 4: Disability, Health, and Welfare Rights

Chapter 21: Article 23 - The rights of children with disabilities
Chapter 22: Article 24 - The right to health
Chapter 23: Article 26 - The right to benefit from social security
Chapter 24: Article 27 - The right to a standard of living adequate for physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social development
Chapter 25: Article 33 - The right to protection from illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

Part 5: Education, Leisure, and Cultural Activities Rights

Chapter 26: Article 28 - The right to education
Chapter 27: Article 29 - The aims of education
Chapter 28: Article 30 - Cultural, religious, and linguistic rights of minority or indigenous children
Chapter 29: Article 31 - The rights to rest, play, recreation, and cultural and artistic activities

Part 6: Protection Measures from Violence

Chapter 30: Article 19 - The right to protection from all forms of violence
Chapter 31: Article 37 - Prohibition of torture, capital punishment, and arbitrary deprivation of liberty
Chapter 32: Article 39 - The right to physical and psychological recovery of child victims

Part 7: Protection Measures from Exploitation

Chapter 33: Article 32 - The right to protection from economic exploitation and hazardous activities
Chapter 34: Article 34 - The right to protection from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
Chapter 35: Article 36 - The right to protection from other forms of exploitation

Part 8: Protection Measures for Children in Vulnerable Situations

Chapter 36: Article 22 - The right to protection for refugee and asylum-seeking children
Chapter 37: Article 35 - Prevention of abduction, sale, and trafficking
Chapter 38: Article 38 - The right to protection from armed conflict
Chapter 39: Article 40 - The rights in the juvenile justice setting

Part 9: General Measures of Implementation

Chapter 40: Article 1 - Definition of a child
Chapter 41:  Article 4 - States Parties'' obligations
Chapter 42: Articles 42 and 44(6) - Making the Convention and States Parties'' compliance widely known