Rights of the Child Bah ' International Community Rights of the Child Joint statement to the 49th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Agenda item 24. The Bah ' International Community is pleased to offer, on behalf of a number of non-governmental organizations, comments under this agenda item on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We would like to focus attention on the importance of this Convention and the critical role of moral education in making the rights guaranteed by the Convention a living reality for all children. Implementation of this Convention should be given high priority by governments and non-governmental organizations alike.
Children are one of the most vulnerable groups in society and, at the same time, the most important.
Therefore, every society has the responsibility to safeguard the well-being of all children and the obligation to promote the full development of their physical, mental and moral capacities. To neglect this responsibility is to court the destruction of the foundations of society itself, for the destiny of all future generations depends on the attention given to children now. The sad results of the current lack of moral education are evident everywhere. Many of today's children and youth are understandably restless and aimless. They are inhabitants of a rapidly changing world in which old paradigms and assumptions have fallen to the wayside, but have yet to be replaced by new paradigms and values.