1. Children’s Rights
As identified by the United Nations
Declaration of the Rights of the Child

2. The Declaration is a list of
principles in which children
have a right to.
Taken from the website:
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/hu
manrights/resources/child.asp -- Here
are the Principles:
2. The child shall enjoy special
protection, and shall be given
1. The child shall enjoy all the rights
opportunities and facilities, by law
set forth in this Declaration. Every
and by other means, to enable
child, without any exception
him to develop physically,
whatsoever, shall be entitled to
mentally, morally, spiritually and
these rights, without distinction or
socially in a healthy and normal
discrimination on account of race,
manner and in conditions of
colour, sex, language, religion,
freedom and dignity. In the
political or other opinion, national
enactment of laws for this
or social origin, property, birth or
purpose, the best interests of the
other status, whether of himself or
child shall be the paramount
of his family.
consideration.

3. 3. The child shall be entitled from
his birth to a name and a
nationality.
4. The child shall enjoy the
benefits of social security. He
shall be entitled to grow and
develop in health; to this end,
special care and protection shall
be provided both to him and to 5. The child who is physically,
his mother, including adequate mentally or socially handicapped
pre-natal and post-natal care. The shall be given the special
child shall have the right to treatment, education and care
adequate nutrition, housing, required by his particular
recreation and medical services. condition.

4. 7. The child is entitled to receive
6. The child, for the full and
education, which shall be free and
harmonious development of
compulsory, at least in the
his personality, needs love and
elementary stages. He shall be
understanding. He shall,
given an education which will
wherever possible, grow up in
promote his general culture and
the care and under the
enable him, on a basis of equal
responsibility of his parents,
opportunity, to develop his
and, in any case, in an
abilities, his individual judgement,
atmosphere of affection and
and his sense of moral and social
of moral and material security;
responsibility, and to become a
a child of tender years shall
useful member of society. The best
not, save in exceptional
interests of the child shall be the
circumstances, be separated
guiding principle of those
from his mother. Society and
responsible for his education and
the public authorities shall
guidance; that responsibility lies in
have the duty to extend
the first place with his parents. The
particular care to children
child shall have full opportunity for
without a family and to those
play and recreation, which should
without adequate means of
be directed to the same purposes
support. Payment of State and
as education; society and the
other assistance towards the
public authorities shall endeavour
maintenance of children of
to promote the enjoyment of this
large families is desirable.
right.

5. 10. The child shall be protected
8. The child shall in all
from practices which may foster
circumstances be among the
racial, religious and any other form
first to receive protection
of discrimination. He shall be
and relief.
brought up in a spirit of
understanding, tolerance,
9. The child shall be protected friendship among peoples, peace
against all forms of neglect, cruelty and universal brotherhood, and in
and exploitation. He shall not be the full consciousness that his energy
subject of traffic, in any form. The and talents should be devoted to
child shall not be admitted to the service of his fellow men.
employment before an appropriate
minimum age; he shall in no case be
caused or permitted to engage in
any occupation or employment
which would prejudice his health or
education, or interfere with his
physical, mental or moral
development.

6. Resources
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources/child.asp
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