This is a memo written for Model United Nations for the country of France briefing their position on Children's Rights.

Memo To: ********* From:Steph ********* Date:9/22/2003 Subject:Child Labor "States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development..." The idea of Children's Rights has long been a subject of relativity. With so many countries, at so many …

…their children. However, more stringent enforcement of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child would in all probability expose children to even more starvation, homelessness and poverty. _______________________________________________________________ Found within the United State's Constitution: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -U.S. Constitution (Amendment XIII, Section 1)