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Protection from abuse and neglect
The State shall protect the child from all forms of maltreatment by parents or others responsible for the care of the child and establish appropriate social program for the prevention of abuse and the treatment of victims.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Non-discrimination
All rights apply to all the children without exception. It is the State's obligation to protect children from any form of discrimination and to take positive action to promote their rights.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Best interests of the child
All actions concerning the child shall take full account of his or her best interests. The State shall provide the child with adequate care when parents, or others charged with that responsibility, fail to do so.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Access to appropriate information
The State shall ensure the accessibility to children of information and material from a diversity of sources, and it shall encourage the mass media to disseminate information which is of social and cultural benefit to the child, and take the steps to protect him or her from harmful materials.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Protection of a child without family
The State is obliged to provide special protection for a child deprived of the family environment and to ensure that appropriate alternative family care or institutional placement is available in such cases. Efforts to meet this obligation shall pay due regard to the child's cultural background.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Name and nationality
The child has the right to a name at birth. The child has the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, to know his or her parents and be cared for by them.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Preservation of identity
The State has an obligation to protect and if necessary, re-establish basic aspects of the child's identity. This includes name, nationality and family ties.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Separation from Parents
The child has the right to live with his or her parents unless this is deemed to be incompatible with the child's best interests. The child also has the right to maintain contact with both the parents if separated from one or both.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Family reunification
Children and their parents have their right to leave any country and to enter their own for purposes of reunion of the maintenance of the child-parent relationship.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.
Adoption
In countries where adoption is recognized and/ or allowed, it shall only be carried out in the best interests of the child, and then only with the authorization of competent authorities, and safeguards for the child.
Source: Convention on the rights of a child.

The Belizean Child | Virtual Knowledge Centre on the Children of Belize

Children are Our Present and Future

The Belizean Child Virtual Knowledge Centre is a public-access virtual knowledge centre created and implemented as an inter-agency collaboration between UNICEF Belize, the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Belize, and the National Committee for Families and Children (NCFC). The site is a resource centre designed to gather child-specific content on the Belizean child from international, regional and national research, findings, and practices from the field and communication for development. Through this knowledge centre, information is within easy access of a wide network of partners involved in child rights work in Belize.