Promoting Rights of Health and Social Care Users.
The field of children’s rights has long been fraught with both controversy and confusion. The conundrum arises from the fact that even self-described child advocates typically fail to reach consensus about the scope of children’s rights. 1,2 Some are child-savers committed to societal engagement in children’s protection. Typically, they focus on children’s vulnerability and dependency.
The rights under the CRC can be categorized as, (a) General rights such as non-discrimination, the best interests of the child being the main consideration, and respect for the views of the child; (b) Civil rights and freedoms, such as a right to an identity, freedom of expression, and protection of privacy; (c) Family environment and alternative care rights such as the right to be cared for.
It is our hope that Child Rights Launchpad, Unicef UK’s free digital platform for children in Scotland to explore their rights, will empower Scotland’s next generation by helping them to understand their rights. Child Rights Launchpad was developed as a legacy project from Unicef UK’s Partnership with the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (pdf) outlines very basic human rights (e.g., to protect children against child labor and violence and secure their right for education). My list of children’s rights starts from the assumption that children are in an educational environment.
Parents, community members and others who care for children are secondary duty bearers, with specific legal responsibilities for upholding the rights of children under their care. Families and communities must be supported to raise their children in ways that keep them safe and to end harmful traditional and parenting practices.
The recognition of the child’s interest and his rights become real on 20 November 1989 with the adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child which is the first international legally binding text recognizing all the fundamental rights of the child. Children’s rights: human rights. Children’s rights are human rights.
Empower our children with Children's Rights Education so that they can build a global culture of respect for human rights as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.Then each child can fully develop into a critically literate, rights respecting citizen who collaborates with others to uphold human rights and question the root causes of social injustice in the.