Human rights vs children's rights vs public good --- Internationally-recognized institutions like the UN have seen the need to develop human rights for all peoples as fundamental to the dignity of each person. Similarly these vulnerable children also have rights enshrined in the Rights of the Child. Should one's human right impinge on or violate the rights of another group of persons with impunity? or should there be the recognition that whatever laws are permitted within the public domain must be for the common good of all- and as such there must be some level of compromise where what we consider privacy laws may be restricted to some extent in the interest of the greater common good of the public; otherwise we will have irretractable laws where each side holds its position as supreme. This can only lead to anarchy and chaos.

Source author: Bennette Thomas thomasb@dominica.gov.dm