Back to: Human Rights: Overview
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has guided the world for about 27 years in the protection of children and quest to secure their physical, cognitive, emotional, economic, and social well-being. In this lesson you will be given a variety of child rights education materials, videos and links. We hope you will join us in the fight for children to be afforded rights – just as every other group has been afforded rights.
UNICEF’s describes the UNCRC and its accomplishments here:
Here are some videos that explain what the UNCRC is and why child rights are important:
The next film describes child rights from a child’s point of view.
The next film shows children in Florida fighting for their rights. The USA has not ratified the UNCRC.
The full treaty can be found here: