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Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
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“The key to understanding the Children's Rights Convention is to know, accept and internalise that a child is an independent human being, with subjective rights, and with the same entitlement to dignity and respect to personal integrity.” This is a quote from Professor Lucy Smith, one of the people responsible for looking at how well the UK is doing in terms of children's rights.

So do we accept children as independent human beings? Do we afford them the dignity they are entitled to? According to many, the answer is a definite no.

I live in a country where young people are criminalised for meeting in groups and hanging around, that uses dispersal orders and Mosquito devices to chase them away. Where 71% of media stories about young people are negative. Where it is legal to hit a child, but not a dog.

The government are to be inspected this autumn, and these issues will surely be commented upon. The Children's Rights Alliance for England has already made 152 recommendations, at least 100 of which are urgent, to avoid severe criticism from the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Many of these recommendations are things that could be done now by the government, and would send out a clear message that we are a country that respects its children and young people. What would your priorities be? Do you take a rights-based approach in your own work? What can or do you do to make sure children's rights are respected?

June 25, 2008 | 5:54 AM Comments  0 comments

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