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Rights of the Child

The Convention on the Rights of the Child : Introduction  ▪  Summary  ▪  Full text

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UN Declaration of the ... Rights of the Child

The right to affection, love, and understanding. The right to adequate nutrition and medical care. The right to free education. The right to full opportunity for play and recreation. The right to a name and nationality. The right to special care, if handicapped. The right to be among the first to receive relief in times of disaster. The right to learn to be a useful member of society and to develop individual abilities. The right to be brought up in a spirit of peace and universal brotherhood. The right to enjoy these rights, regardless of race, colour, sex, religion, national, or social origin.

 

 


 

The Lancet: Right to Health



UNICEF CRC Video Contest-20th Anniversary: The right to free education.




India: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009

The landmark passing of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009 marks a historic moment for the children of India. For the first time in India's history, children will be guaranteed their right to quality elementary education by the state with the help of families and communities.
 



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UN Declaration of the ... Rights of the Child.


Child Rights Training

Children's right to the best possible health.
A child rights curriculum for health professionals on implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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This material is freely available for teaching about children's rights in health care to health and allied professionals. It has been developed by a joint group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and CHild Health (UK) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (USA) and is owned by these two organisations. It is primarily intended for trainees in paediatrics but could be used by nurses, allied professionals and psychologists etc, ideally in mixed discipline groups.



CRED-PRO: An Introduction to Child Rights and Child Health

This course, directed at multidisciplinary children’s health professionals in training and in practice, examines the relationship between needs and rights, and explores how knowledge of children’s rights can promote children’s health and development. In so doing, it introduces participants to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, its principles, status, scope and implications. It also emphasizes the importance of grounding such training in an understanding of the realities of children, their family, and community, building on the social, economic, psychological, cultural, and spiritual factors that influence their lives and capacity.


Children's Rights Curriculum

The Children's Rights Curriculum can be used to raise awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by increasing the understanding of its direct application to health and health care policy and practice, raise awareness of the relationship between public policy and the health rights of children and encourage a commitment to the development of an advocacy role related to children's rights.



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