<P> Canada became a signatory to the Convention on 28 May 1990 and ratified in 1991 . Youth criminal laws in Canada underwent major changes resulting in the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) which went into effect on 1 April 2003 . The Act specifically refers to Canada's different commitments under the Convention . The convention was influential in the administrative Law decision of Baker v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration). </P> <P> India ratified UNCRC on 11 December 1992, agreeing in principles all articles except with certain reservations on issues relating to child labor . In India there is law that children under the age of 18 should not work, but there is no outright ban on child labor, and the practice is generally permitted in most industries except those deemed "hazardous". Although a law in October 2006 banned child labor in hotels, restaurants, and as domestic servants, there continues to be high demand for children as hired help in the home . Current estimates as to the number of child laborers in the country range from the government's conservative estimate of 4 million children under 14 years of age to the much higher estimates of children's rights activists, which hover around 60 million . Little is being done to address the problem since the economy is booming and the nuclear family is spreading, thereby increasing demand for child laborers . In India many people are still suffering from non-nutritious food, many parents are still leaving their children on riverside, in trains etc . Under the auspices of the Unicef financed Odisha initiative the Government of India is specifying the outline of a means of change and improvement in child care, and many trusts such as childLine, Plan India and savethechildren too are taking efforts to outdate child labor from India . A few of the organisations who work with children's rights in India are Plan India, CRY (Child Rights and You), Save the Children, Bal Vikas Dhara - New Delhi, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, CHORD - Hyderabad . </P> <P> Iran has adhered to the convention (except for alleged child slavery) since 1991 and ratified it in the Parliament in 1994 . Upon ratification, Iran made the following reservation: "If the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it ." Iran has also signed the both optional protocols which relate to the special protection of children against involvement in armed conflict and the sale of children and sexual exploitation . </P> <P> Although Iran is a state party to the Convention, international human rights organisations and foreign governments routinely denounced executions of Iranian child offenders as a violation of the treaty . But on 10 February 2012, Iran's parliament changed the controversial law of executing juveniles . In the new law, the age of 18 (solar year) would be for both genders considered the cut - off for adulthood and offenders under this age will be sentenced under a separate law . Based on the previous Islamic law, which was revised, girls at the age of 9 and boys at 15 (lunar year, 11 days shorter than a solar year) were fully responsible for their crimes . </P>

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