This year is the 21st anniversary of The Convention on the Rights of the Child Convention (CRC) and we need to ask ourselves: Are children’s rights around the world being respected? There are over 1 billion children living in poverty today. Hunger, child labour, exploitation, discrimination, lack of education and a lack of medical care [...]

Guest post by Daniel On November 20th, 2009, our class participated in a vow of silence. An organization called “Free the Children” asked people around the world to take a vow of silence for the whole day to represent the children of the world whose voices are not being heard and whose rights are not [...]

Following World War II, the United Nations adopted its first Declaration on the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1959. Included in it were 10 principles that began to outline the basic rights that children were entitled to. Thirty years later, on the same date in 1989, the Conventions on the Rights of the [...]