The Child's Access to Diverse Intellectual, Artistic and Recreational Resources: Articles 13, 17, 28, 31 and 32
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Description
This chapter principally examines how American law comports with articles 17 and 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These articles have been combined for analysis because of their substantial overlap. Article 17 recognizes the important function performed by the mass media and seeks to ensure that children have broad access to information and material aimed at the promotion of their social, spiritual and moral well-being and physical and mental health. Article 31 recognizes the right of children to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. For the reasons set out in this chapter, there are no impediments to the United States' ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as it relates to these two articles.
Source Publication
Children's Rights in America: U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child Compared with United States Law
Source Editors/Authors
Cynthia Price Cohen, Howard A Davidson
Publication Date
1990
Recommended Citation
Guggenheim, Martin, "The Child's Access to Diverse Intellectual, Artistic and Recreational Resources: Articles 13, 17, 28, 31 and 32" (1990). Faculty Chapters. 1273.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1273
