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WEBSITE/ARTICLES NOTES Convention on the Rights of the Child was written and opened to ratification on November 20, 2011. All but two countries that are part of United Nation ratified the document; United States was one of the two The document contains 54 documents and a preamble all which has various rights that every child should have.
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This basically states that a child should not be subject to child abuse, torture or any form of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment/punishment. While this article is widely accepted, even today there are many examples of child abuse, mentally and physically. Examples include