The child's right to identity in Romania. Citizenship Cover Image

The child's right to identity in Romania. Citizenship
The child's right to identity in Romania. Citizenship

Author(s): Adrian Nicolescu
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Politics and Identity
Published by: Alexandru and Aristia Aman Foundation
Keywords: child; citizenship; rights and obligations; the right to identity;

Summary/Abstract: The Convention on the rights of the child to which Romania acceded by the adoption of law No. 18/1990 constitutes a complex legal document that brings together, in a unitary and indivisible form, the rights of civil, political, economic, social and cultural-educational of the child. According to the article 1 of the Convention: „a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier“. The main rights stipulated in the Convention that children which are citizens of the signatory States benefits from are: the right to life, the right to protection against harmful interference, the right to be protected from abuse and exploitation, as well as the right to participate fully in the life of the family, cultural and social life.

  • Issue Year: 3/2017
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 32-36
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English