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"Please use your freedom to promote ours."
-Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Democracy Leader and Nobel Peace Laureate
Ensuring the rights and well-being of children is the key to sustained development in every country and to peace and security in the world. Meeting this responsibility fully, consistently, and at any cost, is the essence of leadership.
Yet, commitment and action are required across the board. Not just from governments and organizations. But also from community activists and entrepreneurs, from artists and scientists, from religious leaders and journalists adn FROM CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS THEMSELVES.
- Carol Bellamy
Executive Director
United Children's Fund
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YOUR RIGHTS; REALITY OR RHETORIC?
Your class just received a special invitation from
Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United
Nations Children's Fund. Ms Bellamy has invited
four members of your class to travel to New York City in May of 2002 to join with government leaders and Heads of State, NGOs, children's advocates as they re-evaluate the success of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. These four students role at this conference will be to
communicate to the United Nations how well the intentions of the 1989 Action Plan for Children has been carried out among the students in your
country, city and school.
You have been one of the four luckiy students to be chosen to speak on behalf of the young people of the world.To prepare for the Meeting With the
United Nations in New York you will research the
meaning and intent of the 1989 Action Plan for
Children, evaluate its success and make
recommendations for the Meeting in New York.
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HOW CAN WE GET INVOLVED?
1) Email Brenda Dyck, the "Your Rights: Reality or Rhetoric?" Coordinator, with your intention to participate in this project. Her email address is:
dyckb@abccharter.com
To find out more about Brenda Dyck, check out the "WEBMASTER PAGE".
2) With your class, discuss one of the most basic human rights, the right to a "Safe Place". Teachers can find a writing assignment called, A Safe Place, on the ACTIVITIES page. Suggestions for other activities will be included on this page as well.
3) After familiarizing themselves with the 1989 United Nations Convention, students will look through the information on the web sites from the LINKS page. From her they will evaluate how well the 1989 Action Plan for Children has been carried out among the students in their country, city and school. They will participate in a number of activities, all designed to give them a deeper understanding of the subject of Children's Rights.
4) Equipped with this new -found understanding, students will write a recommendation report for their hypothetical meeting in New York City with Carol Bellamy, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund. This report will share their findings, their opinions and ideas for improving the lives of children in their world.
5) Via an email attachment, teachers will submit their students' completed reports to Brenda Dyck at: dyckb@abccharter.com
Student work will be posted on the "Your Rights: Reality or Rhetoric?" webpage along with student writing from all over North America.
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As Leaders Look Ahead To The Future,They Must Not Overlook Those Who Will Create It.
In 1989 the World held a Summit that focused on
the rights of the world's Children. World leaders promised to create a world fit for children. Seventy one Heads of State and Government and other
leaders signed the World Declaration on Survival,Protection and Development of Children and adopted a Plan of Action to achieve a set of
precise, time-bound goals.The United Nations
General Assembly adopted the Convention on the
Rights of the Child.This spelled out the rights of all children, from health, to education, to an adequate standard of living, to leisure and play, to protection from exploitation, to express their own opinions...and many more. Alol children have these rights.
There has been much discussion about how successful countries have been at implementing the goals set down in 1990.On May 8-10,2002 government leaders and Heads of State, NGOs, children's advocates and young people themselves will gather in New York City to re-evaluate the success of their 1990 goals. The gathering will present a great opportunity to change the way the world views and treats children. Not only will they examine if countries have attemped to implement the forty-one statutes of the Rights of Children, they will examine if institutions closer to the children such as families,schools and even personal friendships are meeting up to the standard set in 1990.
   
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