Let’s Explore Children’s Rights!
Are you interested in learning more about your rights? Then this is the right place, as you will explore the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Get inspired to apply your rights in your everyday life!
Warm up
Let’s first check how much you know about your rights!
Learn
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the main tool that guarantees the rights of every person of any gender under the age of 18. The CRC has been ratified* by 196 countries - nearly every single country in the world. These countries can be held accountable to adhering to all the rules in the CRC, which span from the right to education to the right to participate and protection from violence, among others.
Dive in 1
Do some of the rights you listed before match
with the rights protected by CRC? Which ones?
Dive in 2
The next step is to find out:
- Which of your rights are most often violated?
- Where these rights are violated – at school, at home, on the street, among friends, public places such as shops, cinemas etc. or somewhere else (please specify where)?
- Who violates those rights?
With your buddy conduct a real survey among your friends/schoolmates, using the above question and make a list of the top 5 violated rights.
Present your findings to friends and family.
Together discuss what can be done so that these rights are respected.
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Step 1
In the next few days look around and identify when your rights are being respected or violated.
Write down your observations and after a week discuss them with your buddy, friends and family.
Step 2
Together with your buddy, choose an issue concerning your rights as children.
Create a drawing, a video, a poem or any other artwork which represents this issue or just write a text.
Have it uploaded in the work.it area.
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Step 3
Read this short comic and find out what is the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Send your artwork or your text to them:
Mailing address:
UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
E-mail: ohchr-crc@un.org
Reflect
Pick one right that is most important to you from the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Create a postcard in which you recreate a situation from your life in which this right should always be respected.
When you are done, discuss what to do, if this right is not respected.
What professional or local organization could support you?
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