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Children's Rights
Actionwork has signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The following is a Children's friendly version of the 41 Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
produced by Save the Children (STC)
- 1) The Convention covers anyone under the age of 18
- 2) All children have these rights
- 3) Everything should be in your best interests
- 4) The Government has to uphold your rights
- 5) The rights of your parents/carers and family are respected
- 6) Your right to live
- 7) Your right to name and nationality
- 8) Your right to have your identity protected
- 9) Your right to be with your parents if this is right for you
- 10) Your right to leave a country to be with your parents/carers
- 11) Your right to protection from kidnap
- 12) Your right to express your views that you have & for your views to be listened to in anything that affects you
- 13) Your right to have information
- 14) Your right to choose your own religion
- 15) Your right to choose your own friends and hang out with them
- 16) Your right to have some privacy such s opening up your own letters
- 17) Your right to information through papers, t.v etc
- 18) Both parents have a responsibility to you
- 19) You should be protected from abuse and neglect
- 20) Your right to be cared for if your family is unable to care for you
- 21) Your right to be adopted if this is in your best interests
- 22) Your right to protection and care should be upheld should you have to leave your own country
- 23) Your rights to care, education and training if you are disabled
- 24) Your rights to treatment if you are sick or poorly
- 25) If you are in care this needs to be the right care for you
- 26) You are entitled to Social Security
- 27) Your right to a decent standard of living
- 28) Your right to education
- 29) Education you receive should help you develop and grow
- 30) Your right to follow our own religion, language and culture
- 31) Your right to leisure, play and recreation
- 32) Your right not to work until you are legally old enough
- 33) Protection from all forms of drugs
- 34/35/36/37) Your right to be protected from all forms of cruelty, exploitation and torture
- 38/39) Protection from having to fight in wars and care if you are hurt in wars
- 40) Innocent until proven guilty! Your right to defend yourself and have help if you need it
- 41) Any other rights you have in law apply to you
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