Anderton Park Primary School
The Language of Rights Respecting
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international legal treaty. It sets out the rights that all children are entitled to. It was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and is the most widely ratified international human rights treaty. Whilst UNICEF is named in the CRC, it is inaccurate to refer to ‘the UNICEF rights’.
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Articles
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an international legal treaty. It sets out the rights that children are entitled to, and each one is referred to as an article. There are 54 articles in the CRC and 42 give specific rights to children and young people under 18.
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Duty bearer
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Duty-bearers are individuals who have a particular obligation or responsibility to respect, promote and realise human rights and to abstain from human rights violations. With regards to the CRC, all adults who work for the state are duty bearers, such as teachers, the police and social workers.
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Rights holder
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Rights holders are individuals that have particular entitlements in relation to specific duty-bearers. In general terms, all human beings are rights-holders under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, children hold a specific set of rights outlined in the CRC.
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Unconditional
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Rights are a legal entitlement and do not need to be earned. The rights in the CRC are not dependent on children fulfilling any responsibilities or behaving in particular ways.
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Universal
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The rights within the CRC apply to all children everywhere. Children do not need to be citizens of a country to have these rights.
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Inalienable
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Rights cannot be taken away from people. They can be limited or balanced, or they may not always be respected, but no one can ‘take away’ a right from someone else.
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Indivisible
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Rights are all equally important. They interact and depend on each other – so when one right is not respected this will impact on the enjoyment of other rights.
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Inherent
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Rights are inherent in human beings. They have them from birth.
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