When you have finished this section, you will be familiar with:

• The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its intent and content
  


• The four guiding principles, general measures of implementation and the accountability mechanism of the Convention
  


• Useful sources of information from the Committee on the Rights of the Child
  


• EU legislation and policy documents that will be important in your work for mainstreaming child rights

This chapter contains 15 slides and will take approximately 45 minutes to complete.