Congressional Digest

Excerpt

The health and welfare of children has long been a concern of the international community. Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and global health crises always put children among the most at risk. Every day, more than 26,000 children under the age of five die around the world ? often from causes that are entirely preventable.
In the Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly wrote that “motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance.” The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 2…