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Description

To help children and young people understand their rights and how they are linked to needs and responsiblities. To inform them that these rights also include protection and participation/youth engagement.
Here is a fun and engaging way to explore these rights for young people - NZ agreed to these in 1989, so we are obliged to uphold them.

Consider how you use this activity, based on your own experience/knowledge and the ability of the group (developmentally)

Resources

Here's an excellent resource that you support you in letting you people know what UNCROC means to them - with some great images. https://www.cypcs.org.uk/rights/picture/children

The images that are available here.
A large piece of paper to draw an outline of a child or chalk/masking tape
stickers for voting
pen, paper, crayons

Instructions

explain that this activity explores childrens/youth/s rights and responsibilities and is linked to thier yellow youth card.

Explain the difference to a right and responsibility;
Right - what child should have; food, water, shelter, safety, health care, play etc.
Responsibility - what children should do with and for others (respect others rights, help one another etc.)

If you have a big group, spilt them up into small teams each with thier own body image to work on - labeled 'every child'
ask the groups to write down in the body, what they think the child you need (water, food, safety etc), and be clear about the difference of want... (phone, PS5 etc.)

Look at the responses and then ask them to put out side of the body what they think they should have a right to... you could use pre written cards or sticky dots, to mark out what are rights and needs. Get the group to discuss amongst themselves what they have chosen.
Bring the small teams together to share what each have written and if there are differences or similarities.
Ask the group, what responsibilities do we all have...

Explain to the group that there are really four sections of the rights and they are; Survival, Develoipment, Protection and Participation.

Ask the small teams to put which image would fit under which heading - discuss

Have indiviudals vote with dots (limit with 3 each) on what rights are most important to them - discuss.

As a wrap up, how does what they learnt today fit with the yellow youth card and our own responsiblities...

Tags

• childrens rights
• code of ethics
• UN Convention on the rights of the Child
• Yellow
• Youth card

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