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Human Rights

ARTICLE 12 – CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ORGANISATION

Article 12 takes its name from Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which says that all children have the right to express our views and to have them taken seriously. A12 is a children's rights organisation run by under 18 year olds, for children and young people in the UK.

http://www.article12.com/

UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION

There are several useful areas of the UN website; two pages of particular relevance to the issues in this series can be found at these sites:

CYBER SCHOOL BUS

This site contains a plain language version of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, agreed in the United Nations in November 1989.

Includes some practical citizenship education suggestions, for example:

‘In this part of the project, students will carry out a human rights action project in their own communities. A human rights action project can encompass a wide range of activities: a food drive for the homeless; creating freedom of expression posters to put up in the community; identifying goods produced by child labour and telling the stores and others in the community about them; defending the rights of migrant, or other, workers whose rights may be violated; organizing a letter-writing campaign about a specific issue…’

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/resources/plainchild.htm

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/welcome.html

UNICEF AND ‘VOICES OF YOUTH’

Much of the UNICEF site is relevant, but the ‘Voices of Youth’ may be of particular interest to stimulate work in schools. This area supports networking and discussion by email between young people in different countries.

What is ‘Voices of Youth’?

Voices of Youth has been developed as part of UNICEF's 50th Anniversary celebration.

Through Voices of Youth, you can take part in an electronic discussion about the future as we face the twenty-first century.

We invite you to discuss with us how this world can become a place where the rights of every child are protected, that is, the right to live in peace, to have decent shelter, to be healthy and well-nourished, to have clean water, to play, to go to school, and to be protected from violence, abuse and exploitation.

http://www.unicef.org/voy/

HEARTSTONE

Central to all Heartstone's work is its child-centred approach. Heartstone listens to children and hears their concerns and then responds by producing a range of materials which help them to discuss, debate and understand topical and social issues. These materials, which are used in Heartstone Project groups, include 'The Heartstone Odyssey' – the book which started the whole Heartstone movement, and which forms the main source of discussion by younger children – and photographs and features on a wide range of issues for older children and young people.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~eastwich/aboutus.htm