CRC Clusters

In its Guidelines for Initial Reports and Periodic Reports, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has grouped the provisions of the Convention in clusters: "This approach reflects the Convention's holistic perspective of children's rights: that they are indivisible and interrelated, and that equal importance should be attached to each and every right recognized therein" (CRC/C/58, para.9).
Clicking on the CRC Articles, the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is parsed according to the CRC Glossary terms.

I General measures of implementation

Article 4: implementation obligations
Article 41: respect for existing standards
Article 42: making Convention widely known
Article 44(6): making reports widely available

II Definition of a child

Article 1:

III General principles

Article 2: non-discrimination
Article 3(1): best interest to be a primary consideration
Article 3(2): State's obligations to ensure necessary care and protection
Article 3(3): standards for institutions services and facilities
Article 6: the right to life, survival and development (see also: VI Basic health and welfare)
Article 12: respect for the views of the child

IV Civil rights and freedoms

Article 7: right to name, nationality and to know and be cared for by parents
Article 8: preservation of child's identity
Article 13: freedom of expression
Article 14: freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Article 15: freedom of association and peaceful assembly
Article16: protection of privacy
Article 17: child's access to information, and role of mass media
Article 37(a): right not to be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

V Family environment and alternative care

Article 5: parental guidance and child's evolving capacities
Article 18(1) and (2): parental responsibilities and State's assistance
Article 9: separation from parents
Article 10: family reunification
Article 11: illicit transfer and non-return
Article 27(4): recovery of maintenance for the child
Article 20: children deprived of their family environment
Article 21: adoption
Article 25: periodic review of placemnet and treatment
Article19: protection from all forms of violence
Article 39: rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of violence (see also: VIII - Special protection measures)

VI Basic health and welfare

Article 6: right to life, survival and development (see also: III - General principles)
Article 18(3): support for working parents
Article 23: rights of disabled children
Article 24: right to health and health services
Article 26: right to social security
Article 27(1)-(3): right to adequate standard of living

VII Education, leisure and cultural activities

Article 28: right to education
Article 29: aims of education
Article 31: right to leisure, play and participation in cultural and artictic activities

VIII Special protection measures

A - Children in situations of emergency
Article 22: refugee children
Article 38: children and armed conflict
Article 39: rehabilitation of child victims (see also: V Family environment and alternative care)
B - Children involved with the system of administration of juvenile justice
Article 40: administration of juvenile justice
Article 37(a): prohibition of capital punishment and life imprisonment
Article 37(b)-(d): restriction of liberty
Article 39: rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims (see also: V Family environment and alternative care)
C - Children in situations of exploitation
Article 32: child labour
Article 33: drug abuse
Article 34: sexual exploitation
Article 35: sale, trafficking and abduction
Article 36: other forms of exploitation
D - Children belonging to a minority or an indigenous group
Article 30: