The State Responsibility Towards the Child from an Islamic and the Child Rights Convention Perspectives

Abstract

Islam has shown a great interest and care for child and allocated a great part of its legislations to build the human personality from the early years of age. Islam regards child an independent entity enjoying full rights that the state and parents are obliged to observe. This paper aims at investigating the state responsibility towards child from a jurisprudential and legal perspectives especially in the light of what our Islamic and Arab nations are passing through where childhood is exposed to different catastrophes represented by physical, mental and psychological disabilities of children in addition to the social injustice they suffer. This has made the international community put forward the necessary legislations and rules to care for humans in general and the child in particular. The paper is concluded with a number of results that the study has come up with