United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - Keeping New Zealand's promise.

This information kit has been designed to help people comment on New Zealand's 2000 report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC). Consultation papers include: (1) Keeping track of UNCROC in New Zealand, (2) Defining a "child" - who does UNCROC cover?, (3) Using the General Principles of UNCROC in New Zealand, (4) Civil rights and freedoms, (5) Family life and other care, (6) health care and financial help from the government, (7) School, free time and doing cultural things, (8) How do we protect children. Also included is a summary of all the recommendations given by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to New Zealand after its 1995 report.