On
the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the project, coordinated by Prof. Carlos Villagrasa at the Universitat de Barcelona's Faculty of Law,
analyses how each country has adapted the Convention’s requirements and applied
the committee's recommendations. Each country's
conclusions were prepared by a legal expert from the country and published
separately in a total of eight volumes.

Dr.
Carmen María Lázaro, who
has both Spanish and French citizenship, published the volume on the
recommendations that the Committee on the Rights of the Child made in France
and how they were applied there.

The
Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding international
tool that addresses the entire range of human rights, including civil,
cultural, economic, political and social rights. In 1989, world leaders decided
that children should be covered by a special convention that applied
exclusively to them, given that children under the age of 18 need special care
and protection not required by adults.