UNICEF (Convention on the Rights of the Child)
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As the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, you may wonder what you can do to change the Convention from words on paper into real actions for children. No matter who you are -a parent, a child, a neighbour, a teacher, a journalist, or an employee of a non-governmental organization etc there is something you can do.
TAKE ACTION
read and share with others
Convention on the Rights of the Child
(text in PDF format)
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf
Families and communities
What can families and communities do to advance the principles set forth by the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
- Read the CRC. Know and understand its principles and how it can be applied to protect children and childhoods.
- Hold your government accountable. Find out how your local, national and international leaders are protecting child rights in your community. Make sure that responses to the specific needs of children are an essential part of all programmes and budgets.
- Help spread the word about children's rights. Organize a child rights awareness campaign in your school, college, workplace, community or place of worship. You may be surprised how little people know about children's rights; inform them in an interactive way.
- Raise funds. Organize activities to raise funds for children's rights while creating awareness amongst your donors.
- Help spread the word online. Do you send e-mail, post on message boards or social networking sites, or have your own blog or website? If so, help spread the word online.
- Create safe spaces where people living with HIV/AIDS can meet, share concerns and information, and take joint action.
- Help young people develop the skills and self-confidence to remain safe in difficult situations.
- Educate others about HIV and AIDS. Alert people in your school, community and workplace to the fact that HIV is not a disease that affects only adults and that millions of children are adversely affected by the AIDS pandemic.
- Talk to business owners. Learn more about what labour unions and businesses are doing to protect child rights in the workplace. Find out if they will give you support and work together on a campaign.
- Ensure that all children are registered at birth. Registration ensures their right to a name and nationality as well as their access to education, health care, and legal and social services.
- Ensure that all children in the community attend a child-friendly school full-time and receive an education that is of good quality, equal for all children and free from violence. This can involve changing classroom management (traditionally based on fear, threats, humiliation and physical punishment) to a child-friendly approach that is non-discriminatory and supports cooperative learning.
- Establish safe complaint mechanisms for all forms of violence against children, including sexual violence and abuse, bullying and corporal punishment.
- Support initiatives to prevent and respond to all forms of violence in settings where children live, go to school, play and work - including codes of conduct and standards, public campaigns, and proper reporting procedures and help-lines.
- Support the expansion of services that are community-based and services for children.
- Respect children. Use positive and non-violent discipline, including respecting the child's perspective.
- Communicate with children. Children and adults should actively and consistently talk to each other, sharing information and ideas in the home, school and community with mutual respect. Listen to, and take seriously, the views of both boys and girls. Ensure that vulnerable children are able to express their opinions and make decisions
http://www.unicef.org/
As the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, you may wonder what you can do to change the Convention from words on paper into real actions for children. No matter who you are -a parent, a child, a neighbour, a teacher, a journalist, or an employee of a non-governmental organization etc there is something you can do.
TAKE ACTION
read and share with others
Convention on the Rights of the Child
(text in PDF format)
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf
Families and communities
What can families and communities do to advance the principles set forth by the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
- Read the CRC. Know and understand its principles and how it can be applied to protect children and childhoods.
- Hold your government accountable. Find out how your local, national and international leaders are protecting child rights in your community. Make sure that responses to the specific needs of children are an essential part of all programmes and budgets.
- Help spread the word about children's rights. Organize a child rights awareness campaign in your school, college, workplace, community or place of worship. You may be surprised how little people know about children's rights; inform them in an interactive way.
- Raise funds. Organize activities to raise funds for children's rights while creating awareness amongst your donors.
- Help spread the word online. Do you send e-mail, post on message boards or social networking sites, or have your own blog or website? If so, help spread the word online.
- Create safe spaces where people living with HIV/AIDS can meet, share concerns and information, and take joint action.
- Help young people develop the skills and self-confidence to remain safe in difficult situations.
- Educate others about HIV and AIDS. Alert people in your school, community and workplace to the fact that HIV is not a disease that affects only adults and that millions of children are adversely affected by the AIDS pandemic.
- Talk to business owners. Learn more about what labour unions and businesses are doing to protect child rights in the workplace. Find out if they will give you support and work together on a campaign.
- Ensure that all children are registered at birth. Registration ensures their right to a name and nationality as well as their access to education, health care, and legal and social services.
- Ensure that all children in the community attend a child-friendly school full-time and receive an education that is of good quality, equal for all children and free from violence. This can involve changing classroom management (traditionally based on fear, threats, humiliation and physical punishment) to a child-friendly approach that is non-discriminatory and supports cooperative learning.
- Establish safe complaint mechanisms for all forms of violence against children, including sexual violence and abuse, bullying and corporal punishment.
- Support initiatives to prevent and respond to all forms of violence in settings where children live, go to school, play and work - including codes of conduct and standards, public campaigns, and proper reporting procedures and help-lines.
- Support the expansion of services that are community-based and services for children.
- Respect children. Use positive and non-violent discipline, including respecting the child's perspective.
- Communicate with children. Children and adults should actively and consistently talk to each other, sharing information and ideas in the home, school and community with mutual respect. Listen to, and take seriously, the views of both boys and girls. Ensure that vulnerable children are able to express their opinions and make decisions
http://www.unicef.org/
We the undersigned would like to take this opportunity to celebrate progress and to take action to fulfill the promise of the best we have to give children - in our communities, our country and around the world.
We signed the "UNICEF (Convention on the Rights of the Child)" petition!
# 158:
11:20 pm PST, Jan 12,
Sue Harrington, Minnesota
# 157:
2:44 pm PST, Dec 29,
Cathi Hartline, Arizona
please help the voiceless, the children!
please help the voiceless, the children!
# 156:
9:36 pm PST, Dec 23,
Catherine Turley, California
# 155:
7:13 pm PST, Dec 23,
Js Tar, Egypt
# 154:
9:55 pm PST, Dec 20,
Julie Worley, Tennessee
Children in 20 states are legally hit with wooden paddles as punishment by employeees at schools. The employees have immunity from criminal/civil charges. America is looked to as a leading nation by other nations, yet our Federal and state governments are miserably failing to protect children in schools. The cost to ABOLISH Physical/Corporal Punishment of ALL CHILDREN IN ALL SCHOOLS IS $0.
Children in 20 states are legally hit with wooden paddles as punishment by employeees at schools. The employees have immunity from criminal/civil charges. America is looked to as a leading nation by other nations, yet our Federal and state governments are miserably failing to protect children in schools. The cost to ABOLISH Physical/Corporal Punishment of ALL CHILDREN IN ALL SCHOOLS IS $0.
# 153:
6:50 am PST, Dec 16,
Divya Shetty, India
# 152:
7:48 am PST, Dec 12,
Joshua Doyle, Canada
# 151:
3:24 pm PST, Dec 11,
Acacia Ludo, Florida
# 150:
8:22 am PST, Dec 11,
Name not displayed, Mexico
Respect children, they need a loving enviroment.
Respect children, they need a loving enviroment.
# 149:
2:10 pm PST, Dec 4,
Lone Wolf, West Virginia
# 148:
1:28 pm PST, Dec 3,
Aisha Bint Oziel, Brazil
# 147:
1:25 pm PST, Dec 3,
Sofia Pimenta, Portugal
# 146:
8:49 am PST, Dec 3,
Marlene Barrett, Ohio
# 145:
6:16 am PST, Dec 3,
Sara Gaspar, Portugal
# 144:
6:14 am PST, Dec 3,
Victoria Brown, Arizona
# 143:
11:28 am PST, Dec 2,
ALPHA WI, Germany
# 142:
7:07 am PST, Dec 2,
Natalia Dabrowska, Poland
# 141:
1:05 am PST, Dec 2,
Darcy Kashmark, Minnesota
# 140:
3:18 am PST, Dec 1,
Denise Lytle, New Jersey
# 139:
2:58 am PST, Dec 1,
Margaret Sweeny, United Kingdom
# 138:
5:44 pm PST, Nov 30,
Yvonne Ladd, Kentucky
# 137:
5:41 pm PST, Nov 30,
Audra Raulinaitis, Illinois
# 136:
5:22 pm PST, Nov 30,
Ariel C, Canada
# 135:
12:42 pm PST, Nov 30,
Ana Lakaliska, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
# 134:
10:41 am PST, Nov 30,
Rhea Preston, California
# 133:
9:57 am PST, Nov 30,
Carole BELLEUDY, France
# 132:
9:56 am PST, Nov 30,
Nicolas BELLEUDY, France
# 131:
9:55 am PST, Nov 30,
Jean-Luc PALAZOTTO, France
# 130:
9:54 am PST, Nov 30,
Odile HECKMANN, France
# 129:
9:54 am PST, Nov 30,
Marie-Rose HECKMANN, France
# 128:
10:40 pm PST, Nov 29,
Arun Mahesh, Pakistan
# 127:
4:42 pm PST, Nov 29,
Cher Clarke, Canada
# 126:
2:35 pm PST, Nov 29,
Lady Flo, Sweden
# 125:
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1:21 pm PST, Nov 29,
Cecilia Bowerman, Australia
Fantastic advise!! count me in it!! |
# 124:
1:16 pm PST, Nov 29,
Diane Kolessar-Berl, Pennsylvania
# 123:
11:47 am PST, Nov 29,
Carol Leuenberger, California
# 122:
9:45 am PST, Nov 29,
Anne Holmberg, Denmark
# 121:
5:19 am PST, Nov 29,
Piroska Sipocz, Hungary
# 120:
4:52 am PST, Nov 29,
Filomena Lomba Viana, United Kingdom
# 119:
2:40 am PST, Nov 29,
Gerold Fahrer, Germany
# 118:
11:33 pm PST, Nov 28,
Aija Arikane, Ireland
# 117:
11:32 pm PST, Nov 28,
Jelica Roland, Croatia
# 116:
11:18 pm PST, Nov 28,
Katherine Hughes, Oregon
# 115:
7:24 pm PST, Nov 28,
Edith Suarez, Mexico
# 114:
6:22 pm PST, Nov 28,
Linda Carver, Georgia
# 113:
4:57 pm PST, Nov 28,
Kelly Cleveland, Colorado
# 112:
4:07 pm PST, Nov 28,
Winefred Marcellin, Netherlands
# 111:
1:42 pm PST, Nov 28,
Glenda Baker, Australia
# 110:
12:00 pm PST, Nov 28,
Sally Tinkham, New Hampshire
# 109:
11:39 am PST, Nov 28,
Alicia Vázquez, Spain
# 108:
9:59 am PST, Nov 28,
Laila Afsoon, California
For more impact, add a personal comment here
For more impact, add a personal comment here
# 107:
9:24 am PST, Nov 28,
Lilith Diamond, Italy
# 106:
9:08 am PST, Nov 28,
Pam Wilkinson, Michigan
# 105:
9:04 am PST, Nov 28,
Sylvain Parreaux, France
# 104:
9:03 am PST, Nov 28,
Jennie Crespo, Puerto Rico
# 103:
7:47 am PST, Nov 28,
Kristi Knotts, California
# 102:
7:37 am PST, Nov 28,
Julie Jamieson, United Kingdom
For more impact, add a personal comment here
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# 101:
7:20 am PST, Nov 28,
Mary Foley, Ireland
