Sri Lanka Lamun ළමුන් Lamai ළමයි Children Children's Child Kids
toolbar powered by Conduit
to Sri Lanka Cyber Virtual University / to Sri Lanka Vishva Vidhyuth Sarasaviya
to Sri Lanka Presidents Web Service / to Sri Lanka E Archives

to Sri Lanka E Museum / to Sri Lanka Country Portal
Custom Search
Free Internet Security - WOT Web of Trust
SRI LANKA ALMANAC CHILDREN PORTAL
Sri Lanka Lankan Children Childrens Child Kids
(Sri Lanka Lamai / Sri Lanka Lamun)

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමුන් / ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමයි
affiliate_link
affiliate_link
Sri Lanka Lamun / Sri Lanka Lamai
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමුන් / ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමයි
Sri Lanka Children Portal

Children News Bar
ළමුන්
පුවත්

Sri Lanka Data Portals ශ්‍රී ලංකා දත්ත පෝටල්ස්
Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Kôshaya Portal ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඇල්මනැක් විද්‍යුත් කෝෂය පෝටල්
Home >>හෝම්
Index >> පටුන

International Children's Day - June 01st / Universal Children's Day - November 20th
ලෝක ළමා දිනය - ජූන් 01 -
Sri Lanka Lamun >>
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමුන්
Sri Lanka Children

Sri Lanka Lamun / Sri Lanka Lamai
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමුන් / ශ්‍රී ලංකා ළමයි
Sri Lanka Children Portal
Who is a Child?

Article 01 - Definition of a child
A child is recognized as a person under 18 years of age unless nationalk laws recognizeed the age of majority earlier

Article 02 - Non discrimination
All rights apply to all children equally without an expectation. It is the state's obligation to protect children from any form of discriminattion and to take positive action to promote their rights.
Article 03 - Best interest of the child
All actions concerning the child shall take full accounts of his or her best interests.
Article 04 - Implementation of Rights
The state should take all steps to implement the rights contained in the convention.
Article 05 - Parental guidance and the child's evolving capacities
The state must respect teh rights and responsibilitiesof parents and the extended families to provide guidance for the child which is appropropriate to her or his evolving capacity.
Article 06 - Survival and development
Every child has the inherent right to life and everyone has an obligation to ensure the child's survival and development.
Article 07 - Name and nationality
Every child has the right to acquire a nationality. ඔhe child shall be registered immidiatley after birth.
Article 08 - Preservation of identity
The state has an obligation to protect and if necessary re-establish basic aspects of the child's identity. this includes name, nationality and family.
Article 09 - Separation from parents
The child has a right to live with his or her parents. the child also has the right to maintain contacts, relationships with both parents or one if separated from each other.
Article 10 - Family reunification
Children and their parents have the right to leave and enter any country for their purposes of reunion or for the maintenance of the child-parent relationship.
Article 11 - Illicit transfer and non-return
The state has an obligation to prevent and remedy the kidnapping or retention of children abroad by parents or a third party.
Article 12 - The child's opinion
The child has the right to express his or her ideas / opinions freely and to have that opinion taken into consideration in any matter or procedure affecting the child.
Article 13 - Freedom of expression
The child has the right to information and give information to others and to express his or her views unless this would violate the rights of others.
Article 14 - Freedom of thought conscience and religion
The state shall respect the child's right to freedom of thought conscience and religion 'subject' to appropriate parental guidance and national law.
Article 15 - Freedom of association
Children have the right to meet with others and to enjoy of form association in conformity with the law and the interest of national security.
Article 16 - Protetcion of privacy
Children have the right to a provate life. They have a right to be protected from interference with their privacy, family, home and correspondence.
Article 17 - Access to appropriate information
The state shall ensure the accessibility to children of information and material from a diversity of sources and it shall encourage the mass media to disseminate the information which is aimed at his or her well-being and respect the child's social and cultural background.
Article 18 - Parental responsibilities
Parents have joint primary responsibility for raising the child and the state shall support them in this. The state shall provide appropriate asistance to parents in child raising.
Article 19 - Protection from abuse and neglect
The state shall protect the child from all forms of maltreatment and establish appropriate social programmes for the prevention of abuse and the treatment of victims.
Article 20 - Protection of child without family
The state is obliged to provide special protection for a child deprived of a family environment and to ensure that appropriate alternative family care or institutional care / placement is available in such casses.
Article 21 - Adoption
Where adoption is recognized and / or allowed, it shall be carried out with the authorization of competent authorities.
Article 22 - Refugee children
Special protection shall be granted to a refugee child or to a child seeking refugee status.
Article 23 - Disabled children
A disabled child also has a right to special care, education, training and other privileges enjoyed by others.
Article 24 - Health an dhealth services
Children have a right to be as healthy as possible. they should have access to health services specially to primary and preventing healthcare, public health education and programmes for the reduction of infact mortality, diseases and malnutrition.
Article 25 - Periodic review of placement
A child who is placed by the state for reasons of care, protection or treatment is entitiled to get that placement evaluated regularly.
Article 26 - Social security
The child has the right to benefit from social security including social insurance.
Article 27 - Standard of living
A Child has teh right to a standard of living adequate for his or her physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social develoment. it is the responsibility of the parents to ensure this. It is the duty of teh state to ensure that this responsibility is fulfilled
Article 28 - Education
The child has a right to education. The state's duty is to ensure that primary eductaion is free and compulsory. As well as encourage different forms of secondary education accessible to every child and to make higher education accessible to every child and available to al lon teh basis of capacity.
Article 29 - Aims of education
Education shall aim at developing the child's personality, talents, knowledge, skills, attitudes, mental and physical abilities to the fullest extent.
Article 30 - Children of minorities or Indigenous population
Children of minority communities and indigenous populations have the right to enjoy their own culture and practice their own religion and language.
Article 31 - Leisure, recreation and cultural activities
The child has the right to leisure, play and participation in cultural and artistic activities.
Article 32 - Child labour
The child has the right to be protected from work that threatens his or her health, education and development. The state shall fix minimum ages for employment and regulate working conditions.
Article 33 - Drug abuse
Children have the right to be protected from the use of narcotics and psychotropic drugs and from being involved in the use or distribution of such illegal ietms.
Article 34 - Sexual exploitation
The state shall protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse.
Article 35 - Sale, trafficking and abduction
It is the state's obligation to make every effort to prevent the sale, trafficking and abduction of children.
Article 36 - Other forms of exploitation
The children has the right to get protection from all forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspect of the child's welfare not covered in articles 32, 33, 34 and 35 of the Conevtion of the Rights of the Child.
Article 37 - Torture and deprivation of liberty
No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily. the arrest destination or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. The child has the right to maintain contacts with the family.
Article 38 - Armed conflict
States parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that children under 18 years of age have no direct part in hostilities. No child under 18 years shall be recruited in to the armed forces.
Article 39 - Rehabilitative care
The state has an obligation to ensure that child victims of armed conflicts, torture, neglect, maltreatment or exploitation receive appropriate treatment for their recovery and social integration.
Article 40 - Administration of juvenile justice
A child in conflict with the law has the right to get treatment whcih promotes the child's sense of dignity and worth that takes the child's age into account and aims at his or her integration into society. The child is entitled to basic guarantees as well as legal or other assistance for his or her defense.
Article 41 - Respect for higher standards
Wherever standards set nationaly and internationally, relevant to the rights of the child that are higher than those in this convention, the higher standards shall apply.
The convention has 54 articles in all. Article 43 to 45 describe how the state should report progress in implementing the convention every 5 years and article 46 to 54 describe the procedure that state should follow to commit themselves to the convention.
sdgsd

'Lion' - The Symbol of Singhala Civilization
Singhala Portal
සිංහල

Sri Lanka Jaathika Singha Dhajaya
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික සිංහ ධජය
Sri Lanka National Flag / Lion Flag

Sri Lanka Raajya Laanchanaya
ශ්‍රී ලංකා රාජ්‍ය ලාංඡනය
Sri Lanka Government Crest
info@sri-lanka-almanac.com
to home Page >>

sri lanka lamun lamavun lamawun lamaa lama lamayin lamavun lamawun children kids ළමුන් ළමයි
sri lanka lankan almanac children childrens child kids portal