Part 1: A Beginning – Images of Rights: Children’s Perspectives Project
This article introduces the Images of Rights Project, provides context and background and invites readers’ participation. It is the first of three Exchange magazine articles by the World Forum Foundation’s Working Group on Children’s Rights, which together explain the core principles of provision, protection and participation in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), explore a range of children’s rights issues, and invite you to join our Images of Rights project....
Part 2 – Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Global Successes and Challenges
This article discusses the history of children’s rights and the development of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), highlighting the ways in which several countries have interpreted this document. It is the second of three Exchange magazine articles by the World Forum Foundation’s Working Group on Children’s Rights, which together explain the core principles of provision, protection and participation in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), explore a range of children’s rights issues, and invite you to join our Images of Rights project....
Part 3 – Children’s Rights in Action: Children and Adults as Partner Advocates
A Conversation About Children’s Rights
by Ellen Hall and Alison Maher - Response by Pam Boulton Do Children have rights? How can they be active participants in the classroom? And what does this have to do with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child? Ellen Hall, Alison Maher and Pam Boulton, of the Working Group on Children's Rights discuss these questions and more in this article from Exchange magazine, May/June 2012....
Seen and Heard: Children’s Rights in Early Childhood
By Ellen Lynn Hall and Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin (foreward by Bonnie Neugebauer). Teachers College Press, 2011 Using examples from a Reggio-inspired school with children from ages 6 weeks to 6 years, the authors emphasize the importance of children's rights and our responsibility as adults to hear their voices. Seen and Heard summarizes research and theory pertaining to young children's rights in the United States, and offers strategies educators can use to ensure the inclusion of children's perspectives in everyday decisions....
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most rapidly and widely ratified international human rights treaty in history. This is the home page of UNICEF’S Children’s Rights efforts, and includes guidance for advocacy and activism and resources on specific topics such as education and gender equality...
International Documents on the Rights of the Child
These resources provides an overview of globally-created documents that address children’s rights, and includes language excerpted from each document: Rights of Protection, Provision, and Participation Would ‘Alice’ Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child?...