Published: 09 June 2021
PHILIPSBURG: - The third online edition of the ‘Growing Up Safe Sint Maarten’ magazine has been launched. This edition puts special focus on children’s rights and features interviews with The Public Prosecutors Office, Youth Parliament, Sister Basilia Center, and SECDA, amongst other updates, tips, and insights. The content of the magazine is geared towards informing and connecting professionals that work with children on Sint Maarten.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was drafted and ratified in 1989 and took effect a year later in 1990. Sint Maarten also has an obligation to live up to the CRC as a constituent of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which has signed up to the treaty. This issue of the Growing Up Safe Sint Maarten magazine provides an easily accessible way to learn more about the developments surrounding children’s rights on Sint Maarten.