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What Is The Declaration Of Children's Rights Between 1948 And 1979

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United Nations the work with children’s rights continued. In 1948 the document was enlarged into seven paragraphs, entitled the 1948 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which replaced the Declaration of Geneva. In addition to what was stated in the earlier document, this declaration stated that the child should be provided social welfare and social security. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the General Assembly in 1959. This Declaration consists of a preamble and the number of principles had now increased to ten. The 1948 and 1959 documents’ main purpose was to protect the child and to emphasize the child’s right to be provided welfare.
In 1979, after a proposal from Poland, a working group was set
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