Putting Children in their Place

Several international protocols and conventions have either petition or complaints handling .*

The Convention on the Rights of the Child does not.**

So is the international world suggesting that a child is meant to be seen and not heard?***

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* For example the Convention against torture, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.
** I like footnotes.
*** I wonder if eBay-ing things counts as being seen or being heard.^
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^Depending on which article one reads, the value of the car varies from $16,000 to $17,000 to $18,000.