Malaysia Legislates the Rights of the Child: Challenges, Progress and Impact

• Main Authors: Zakaria Mohd Kawi, Asmady Idris, Abdul Said Ambotang, Mansoureh Ebrahimi
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Sciendo 2022
• Subjects: KF1-9827 Federal law. Common and collective state law Individual states Individual states; KZ3900-(5490) The international legal community and members
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/35405/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/35405/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/35405/; https://versita.com/menuscript/index.php/Versita/article/view/973/1039; https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2022-002140; https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2022-002140
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Since the adoption by the United Nations in 1989 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all the 196 States including Malaysia have agreed to be bound by the treaty which simultaneously ushers the beginning of the new era in legislating the rights of the child based on binding norms that are n...