This document contains materials for teaching children about their rights, including discussions of needs vs wants, children's characteristics and what they need, how children should be treated, and adults' obligations toward children. It includes activities matching rights to categories, ranking rights, discussing rights and responsibilities, analyzing case studies of rights violations, and assessing rights in one's own school. The overall document provides resources for educating children about their human rights as defined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

1. KNOW THEM. DEMAND THEM.
DEFEND THEM.

2. Children are not mini-people. They have rights –
not mini-rights.
Maud de Boer-Bouqeccio, Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe

3. THE PEN GAME
What mistakes were made?
What were the rules to the game?
Do you accept your mistakes?
Was the game fair?
Who is to blame for the errors?
What was wrong with the game?
How should it be changed to become fair and
just?

4. “CHILD”
ACTIVITY
- What are the characteristics
of the
child?(playful, imaginative, et
c.)
- What does the child need to
grow and
develop?(family, care, educat
ion, etc.)
- How should the child be
treated?
- What obligations should
adults have toward children?

5. NEEDS & WANTS

6. “NEEDS” & “WANTS”

7. SHORT DISCUSSION
 What are the
differences between
“wants” and “needs”?
 Do “wants” and “needs”
of your groups differ?
 What do you think
everyone has a right to?
 Should these be rights
for all children or just
for those present here?

8. How do “needs” and
“wants” relate to children’s
rights?  Rights can help people to have
their wants and needs meet.
 A right is a socially agreed
principle.
 There are special rights for
children and young people.
 These are written together in a
document called The UN
Convention on the Rights of
the Child.
 Every single child and young
person in the world aged
under 18 has the rights in the
UNCRC.

9. MATCH
Political rights right to education
Civil rights right to be free from racism
Equality rights right to speak one’s own
language
Economic rights right to vote
Social rights right to freedom of opinion
Cultural rights right to be paid for work

10. Political rights Right to vote
Civil rights Right to freedom of
opinion
Equality rights Right to be free from
racism
Economic rights Right to be paid for work
Social rights Right to education
Cultural rights Right to speak one’s own
language

11. DIAMOND RANKING GRID

12. WITH RIGHTS COME
RESPONSIBILITIES
RIGHT RESPONSIBILITIES
_____________________ _____________________
You have the right to - You must tell people
express your opinion your opinions
and to have your - You must not
opinion taken into prevent others from
account in decisions expressing their
that affect you opinions
- Adults must listen to
your opinions

13. CHILDREN AROUND THE
WORLD
CASE STUDY
Study the card and answer the following questions:
• How many rights were violated in the case study?
• Which ones?
• Is the child in the story a boy or a girl? Does it make a
difference? Why/why not?
• Where do you think the child lives?
• How do you think the life of the child could improve if
the situation changed?
• Who is responsible for changes?

14. TAKING THE HUMAN RIGHTS
TEMPERATURE OF YOUR
SCHOOL

15. TEAM QUIZ
(COMPREHENSION)
 What is a right?
 Are rights linked to responsibilities? If so, how?
 What rights do you think children should have at home? At school?
In the community?
 What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
 How does the Convention define child?
 How many countries have ratified the UCRC?
 What are children’s rights?
 Why do children have human rights?
 Why should children have rights when they don’t have
responsibilities?
 Why do children and young people need to know about their
rights?

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