Childrenâ??s rights

Children are family’s, society’s and world’s present life and future. They have strong energy in themselves but at the same time they are immature from physical and intellectual points of view; for these reasons they need protection and particular care in their life with their family and of social relationships, respecting their rights until a juridical point of view. This is true before and particularly after birth. We need to respect children’s rights in order to make them better children, with proper emotions, and better adults. It is important that infancy is a happy period of people’s life, and that in this period child can see respected rights and freedom generally recognized. At the same time parents, teachers, caregivers, local authorities and national governments must act in every way to make these principles respected. The principles, from Universal Declaration of Children’s Right, by United Nations in 1959, are: 1. Child must see such rights respected, no matter of any exception about color, gender, language, religion, origin, birth, any condition referred even to the family 2. Child must benefit of a special protection, and to facilitations to grow in normal way on physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual and social way in freedom and dignity 3. Child has right to a name and a nationality 4. Child must benefit of social security, medical care, social protections at every stage of life. Children has right to food, to home, to leisure. 5. If child is in a minority situation, must receive special care 6. Child to grow up and develop in correct way needs love and comprehension. Child must grow under parents’ care and responsibilities, in affection atmosphere, with material and moral security. Family could be helped even with statal subsidies. 7. Child has right to a free education, helping his and her general culture so to develop his and her faculties, his personal judge sense, his and her responsibilities so to be part of society. 8. In every situation child must be the first to be helped and rescued 9. Child must be protected by any exploitation, including works before a minimum age, or being risky for his and her health

Author(s): Ssa Dora Dragoni Divrak

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