CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN ROMANIA TEN YEARS AFTER ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION – OLD AND NEW ISSUES
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN ROMANIA TEN YEARS AFTER ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION – OLD AND NEW ISSUES

Summary/Abstract: To Romania, specifically and differently from other countries, children's situation represented a political criterion for assessing EU membership negotiations. The European integration process still involves the need of understanding what the national and international communities expect from the public policies and from the social stakeholders' attitudes regarding the children's rights protection. Implementation of the UN Convention regarding the Children's Rights is a legal and moral process. It is legal because our country has ratified this international document since 1990, so that, according to the Constitution, the UN Convention is preeminent to any other national regulation in the domain. It is also moral, because it refers to an important part of the population in the country, to children and teenagers aged 0 to 17, and the Convention represents a means to permanent improvement of the children's condition; understanding the attitudes which are comprised in this international document is a present task with a large projection upon the future vitality and strength of our people. ANY CHILD IS AN INDIVIDUAL ENDOWED WITH ALL THE HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE BIRTH. What have we done for the quality of children's life in Romania since 2007, what do we have to do next?

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