The last frontier in human, political and civil rights: the liberation of the child
Children have equal status with adults as members of the human family. Children are neither the possessions of parents nor of the state, nor are they mere people-in-the-making. Governments are morally obliged to recognize the full spectrum of human rights for all children.
It has long been acknowledged that discrimination of people based on property held, sex, race and religion is wrong.
Now it’s time to acknowledge that discrimination on age is just as wrong.