World Chronicle 775: Marjorie Newman-Williams, UNICEF

Michael Littlejohns interviews Marjorie Newman-Williams, Deputy Director of the Programme Division at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), for World Chronicle program 775.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:05
• Production Date: 16 December 1999
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BILL REILLY; JUDY LESSING; MARJORIE NEWMAN-WILLIAMS; MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: AID PROGRAMMES; CHILDREN; RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
• MAMS Id: 2150735
• Parent Id: 824808

Description

CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted in 1989. Drafted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, it aims to set standards defending children against the neglect and abuse they face, in different ways, every day and in every country. It is careful to allow for the different cultural, political and material realities of different states. The Convention emphasizes that the primary responsibility for care and protection lies with the family, but its guiding spirit is always the best interests of the child. It has now been ratified by 191 states with only two remaining non-signatories: Somalia and the United States. In this episode of World Chronicle, Marjorie Newman-Williams, Deputy Director of the Programme Division at UNICEF and herself a participant at the UN Human Rights Commission Drafting Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, discusses what has changed in the lives of children everywhere since the adoption of this Convention.

• Scripts: File; 775.pdf (43.4 KB)