On the Side of Children. Rights, Education, Equity

This article proposes a pedagogical reading of the rights of the child, using the text of the CRC international convention of 1989 as its starting point. The first section traces the process by which the rights of the child came to be acknowledged and points out the pedagogical significance of the juridical principles underpinning the text of the CRC. The second section sets out a thematic examination of the principle of non-discrimination – one of the tenets of the CRC – with reference to gender and goes on to demonstrate the consonance and strictly complementary nature of the goals of women’s empowerment and those of the protection and promotion of the rights of the child: goals enshrined at the centre of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the action programme signed in September 2015 by the governments of the 193 United Nations member countries. Emiliano Macinai wrote the section 1 and 2. Irene Biemmi wrote the sections 3 and 4.