“In 1990, the Parliamentary Assembly, in its Recommendation 1121 (1990) on the rights of the child, invited the Committee of Ministers to draw up a legal instrument to supplement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. After noting that Article 4 of the United Nations convention requires Parties to undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognised in the convention, the Council of Europe decided that these measures were of fundamental importance for the exercise of children’s rights. Without such measures children would not be able to exercise many of their rights. Shortly after the proposals made by the Parliamentary Assembly, the Committee of Experts on Family Law was given the task of considering the question of the rights of children, and of preparing a convention dealing with matters not already covered by the United Nations’ convention. It resulted in the European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights which was opened for signature in Strasbourg on 25 January 1996.” – Publisher’s description
