2.3 Global Response to the Welfare of the Child

2.3.1 Historical Development (esp. under the UN System)The line: the League's-child-committee → the 1924-Geneva-Declaration (the first-international- child-text) → the 1959-UN-Declaration-of-the-Rights-of-the-Child (the ten-principles) → the 1979- International-Year (the drafting-momentum) → the 1989-CRC (the binding-convention (the near- universal-ratification (the two-Optional-Protocols-2000 (the armed-conflict + the sale-of-children) + the 2011-communications-protocol — the three-OPs' growth))); The CRC's-philosophy: the 3-Ps (the provision + the protection + the participation (the best-interests-principle (the Art-3's-golden- rule (the everything-decisions'-lens)))).2.3.2 International Legal InstrumentsThe CRC-1989 (the ratified-1992-by-Nepal (the general-principles: the non-discrimination, the best- interests, the survival-and-development, the participation)) + the OPs (the armed-conflict (the recruitment-bar-raised) + the sale-children-prostitution-pornography (the criminalisation-demand) + the communications (the committee-complaints)) + the ILO's-C138 + the C182 (the worst-forms (the Nepal's-ratifications-verified-in-the-labour-course (the minimum-age + the elimination- pledge))).2.3.3 International Institutional ArrangementsThe Committee-on-the-Rights-of-the-Child (the monitoring-treaty-body (the state-reports-reviewed (the concluding-observations' dialogue))); the UNICEF (the children's-fund (the field-programmes (the Nepal's-long-presence))); the special-representative-on-children-and-armed-conflict (the name-level) — the institutional-scaffolding.