Youth Corner
Your Rights and the Military
At age 16, young people can join the military, under special rules. Read this guide for things you need to know about your rights and the military:
Color It Rights
For young children, here’s a coloring book and teacher’s guide. Thanks to the Children’s Rights Center at Cape Breton University for sharing these.
color-it-rights-teachers-guide
Say it Right!
WARNING: It may be difficult to surf through this site without gaining valuable Information, Transformation, and Communication!
You will be informed about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international agreement that applies to the lives of young people all over the world. On the Say It Right! site, you will find information about your rights, as well as about the realities that other youth are living in Canada and around the world.
While this site doesn’t talk about all the issues in detail, it gives you the chance to learn more about the different rights that you have. In each web-page, you will find lists of books, magazines, Internet-sites, videos and youth organizations that can help you in your exploration of your rights.
You can transform the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into something personal… If you had a room of your own and it needed some work, you might put up some posters, play some of your music and hang up some clothes in the closet. If you just got a new pair of jeans and they were a bit stiff, you might wash them, bleach them and sew on some patches. That way you can make them your own!
Say it Right! The Unconventional UN Convention is an invitation to test out your brand new UN Convention! Make it your own! Take it for a spin and see what you think!
“I have the right to be listened to … and I know my convention.”
So, we have the right to be listened to, to play a part in who we become, to have a decent level of life and to be free from harm. If the Convention is ever going to fit, we need to follow one important rule: we need to communicate with the people around us. Our friends, family, teachers and governments can all help us exercise our rights better in many situations. We need to let them know when they are helping us, and if they aren’t, what they can do differently. So let them hear you SAY IT RIGHT!
- Burning Questions about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Playing a Part — our rights to participate
- Reaching Our Potential — our rights to develop who we are
- Living Well — our rights to thrive and survive
- Being Free from Harm — our rights to protection
* Check out a summary version of the Convention at summary from HREA.
