Within the last century, the idea that children need safeguards and protections separate from those of adults greatly impacted both domestic and international law. Even though the children’s rights movement initiated in as early as eighteenth century, it happened only in the twentieth century that children were viewed as an asset to the nation and the world. After each world war, international legal instruments increasingly included protection for children across the globe.

Children’s Rights will enable researchers, legislators, and academics to compare and contrast how children are treated among the different continents and which policies and laws have had the most profound impact on the younger generations. Children’s Rights also lists which pertinent international treaties the nation has ratified and implemented.

There has been much progress in the children’s rights movement, but more nations must act to protect those who most need it. Children are a nation’s future. The best gift we can give to the world is to ensure a safe, healthy, educated, and able future generation. And that’s just the way it is.