The Best Interests of Disabled Children in the Light of Iranian Laws and International Instruments

Children on the basis of non-perfection in their growth and development are more potent for vulnerability and need protection and attention. Disabled children based on their physical or mental impairments need more and special protections. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Protection of Disabled Act2018 are legal documents which concern disability in Iran. The first one is a general document that considered children in Article 7. The second one is a specialized child rights documents and its 23 article belongs to disable child. The third one also has a general approach and child-related issues are inferred by the articles’ interpretation. This article aims to analyze three documents and to find how the BIC is considered. The findings show that although the Protection of Disabled Act is ratified recently and after Iran’s accession to the CRPD, it has a general and non- expert approach with many gaps in this regard. Besides, the approach of CRC and CRPD are to empower disable child while Act 2018’s approach is solely to protect disable child.