Vaiko teisių apsauga tarptautinėje teisėje

Abstract

The thesis highlights the vulnerability of the child and, thereby, high priority of the children's rights, stress the importance of effective legal structures to support children and to eliminate violence against them. The necessity of the beatings-prohibiting law, which absence inhibits to implement Lithuania’s international commitments, is discussed. The attention is drawn to the problems associated with the frames of the childish age. The thesis sees all forms of violence against children as a violation of children’s rights: violation of their right to personal integrity, to respect for their human dignity, to their right to privacy, their right to enjoy maximum chances of a healthy development and so on.