On the side of children. Rights, education, equity

Abstract

This article proposes a pedagogical reading of the rights of the child, using the text of the
CRC international convention of 1989 as its starting point. The first section traces the
process by which the rights of the child came to be acknowledged and points out the pedagogical
significance of the juridical principles underpinning the text of the CRC. The
second section sets out a thematic examination of the principle of non-discrimination –
one of the tenets of the CRC – with reference to gender and goes on to demonstrate the
consonance and strictly complementary nature of the goals of women’s empowerment
and those of the protection and promotion of the rights of the child: goals enshrined at
the centre of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the action programme
signed in September 2015 by the governments of the 193 United Nations member countries.