Basic Principles
The CRC is built on certain "foundation principles" that underpin all other children's rights. The CRC confers the following basic rights on all children across the world, without discrimination:
- the right to survival, to life, health, nutrition, name and nationality,
- the right to development of education, care, leisure, and recreation,
- the right to protection from exploitation, abuse and neglect,
- the right to participation in expression, information, thought and religion.
CRY works to ensure these rights to all categories of children, who could be street children, children bonded in labor, children of commercial sex workers, physically and mentally challenged children and children in juvenile institutions, or even children in privileged homes.
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