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RASHID KABOD BERITA SABAH
Ahad, 7 September 2014
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
Every child is born with rights
A TREATY TO PROTECT CHILDREN
The recognition given to human rights is relatively recent, beginning with the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 -- and, three years later, with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaim that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
The acknowledgement that children have the same human rights as adults is even more recent. For much of human history, children’s needs were viewed from a lens of charity and kindness. But on 20 November 1989, after more than a decade of negotiations, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) -- the first and only human rights instrument to focus specifically on the rights and freedoms of persons under the age of 18.
The CRC, the most widely ratified human rights instrument in the world, outlines in 54 articles the various rights that all children around the world are entitled to. While families are central to the realisation of these rights, the primary responsibility for the protection of these rights is given to governments. Enshrined in the CRC are four general principles that extend legal recognition to the rights of children:
§ Article 2: Non-discrimination
§ Article 3: Best interests of the child
§ Article 6: The right to life, survival and development
§ Article 12: Views of the Child
Because of the CRC, human rights are fundamental to UNICEF’s work as a development agency. In Article 45 of the CRC, UNICEF is specifically mandated to help foster the implementation of child rights. We do this in tandem with our efforts to promote the human rights of women as well, for neither can be realised without the other.
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.In Malaysia, UNHCR works with partners to protect and assist some 47,600 refugees and asylum-seekers currently registered with the Agency.
 66% of refugees and asylum-seekers are men, while 34% are women. There are some 14,200 children below the age of 18, of whom some 7,000 are of school-going age. There is also a large number of persons of concern to UNHCR who remain unregistered. Refugee communities themselves estimate that the population of unregistered refugees and asylum-seekers could be close to the number of those already registered.UNHCR in Malaysia Although Malaysia is not a State Party to the 1951 Convention and its Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Malaysian Government continues to cooperate with UNHCR in addressing refugee issues on humanitarian grounds. As there are currently no legislative or administrative provisions in place for dealing with the situation of asylum-seekers or refugees in the country, UNHCR conducts all activities related to the reception, registration, documentation and status determination of asylum-seekers and refugees. As part of its programme of humanitarian support for refugees, UNHCR cooperates with various partners including government agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations and volunteers to:
From 1975 until 1996, UNHCR assisted the Malaysian government in providing protection and assistance for the Vietnamese boat people. Over those two decades as part of an international burden sharing effort UNHCR resettled more than 240,000 Vietnamese to countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. During that same period more than 9,000 persons returned home to Vietnam with the support of UNHCR. During the 1970s and 1980s UNHCR assisted the Malaysian Government in receiving and locally settling over 50,000 Filipino Muslims from Mindanao who fled to Sabah. UNHCR also supported the Malaysian Government in locally settling several thousand Muslim Chams from Cambodia in the 1980s and several hundred Bosnian refugees in the 1990s. Back to top |
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UNICEF
is the United Nations Children’s Fund. Around the world, we use our
expertise to meet the challenges facing children and those who care for
them. Our history of more than 60 years gives us a profound
understanding of development and how important children are to progress.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child guide us in all that we do
for children. 
Malaysia’s
commitment to her children has translated to a number of national
development goals which coincidentally cover essential elements of the
Millennium Development Goals. These achievements owe a great deal to the
ground-breaking policies and strategies introduced more than 40 years
ago.
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