Skip to content
Women and Children · Unit 3

The Social, Constitutional and International Status of the Child

Unit 3 of Law Relating to Women and Children (syllabus: Module III — socio-legal issues including child labour and female foeticide; the constitutional safeguards for children; safeguards under the general law; and international concern — the Minimum Age Convention 1973, the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child 1959, the roles of UNESCO, UNICEF and the ILO, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.