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Explores human rights abuses against children, highlighting those that are especially applicable to females, eg, preferences for male children that result in the abortion or infanticide of females, female genital mutilation, rape, & prostitution or sexual slavery. Historical developments culminating in the 1959 UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child & similar treaties are traced, & the adoption in 1989 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has the status of international law, is described. Its guidelines for what constitutes children's rights & provisions for the protection of these are reviewed, focusing on child health, education, labor, & sexual exploitation. A case study of a young homeless girl murdered by a pedophile doctor in Argentina is presented, along with the formation of a special nongovernmental organization targeting child sexual exploitation that resulted from her tragedy. K. Hyatt Stewart

Explores human rights abuses against children, highlighting those that are especially applicable to females, eg, preferences for male children that result in the abortion or infanticide of females, female genital mutilation, rape, & prostitution or sexual slavery. Historical developments culminating in the 1959 UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child & similar treaties are traced, & the adoption in 1989 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has the status of international law, is described. Its guidelines for what constitutes children's rights & provisions for the protection of these are reviewed, focusing on child health, education, labor, & sexual exploitation. A case study of a young homeless girl murdered by a pedophile doctor in Argentina is presented, along with the formation of a special nongovernmental organization targeting child sexual exploitation that resulted from her tragedy. K. Hyatt Stewart