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In collaboration with UNICEF and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Bernard van Leer Foundation has produced A Guide to General Comment 7: Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood, a comprehensive and practical guide to the issues involved in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child when it comes to young children. The book is based around the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment 7, issued in September 2005, and the Day of General Discussion 2004 from which the General Comment emerged. It contains extracts from papers submitted to the Committee at that time and other relevant material. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is applicable with regards to all persons under the age of 18. But, as Jaap Doek - Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child - writes in the introduction, "information on the implementation of the Convention with respect to children before the age of regular schooling is often very limited." This is the problem which led the Committee to devote a Day of General Discussion and then a General Comment to the issue of implementing child rights in early childhood. It is also the motivation behind this book, which it is hoped will be a useful aid to States parties implementing the Convention and to child's rights advocates. Further information
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