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Rights Respecting Team

Rights Respecting Team . Year 8 introduction. What is UNICEF?. UNICEF believes that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNCRC articles have been created to ensure that children are looked after fairly and that their rights are respected.

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Rights Respecting Team

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  1. Rights Respecting Team Year 8 introduction

  2. What is UNICEF? • UNICEF believes that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. • UNCRC articles have been created to ensure that children are looked after fairly and that their rights are respected. • UNICEF believes that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.

  3. What is UNICEF? • Formed in 1946 by United Nations (UN) to help children caught up in disasters • United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund = UNICEF • In 1989 created the UN Convention of Rights for the Child (UNCRC). These rights or articles are used by 191 of 193 countries throughout the World.

  4. What is UNICEF? • UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. • It has the global authority to influence decision-makers. For Every Child

  5. Do you think all children have the right to an education, play, to be them selves and to have a safe healthy childhood?

  6. What is the UNICEFRights Respecting School Award? • An award system that helps schools to adopt a rights respecting approach in which students have a ‘voice’ and their views can be heard. • However, rights go hand in hand with respect. • At Davison we need you to help us to devise and implement a range of strategies to develop further our rights respecting ethos.

  7. What is the Rights Respecting Team? • You! • Led by Yr11 students – Rights Respecting Leaders • Rights Respecting Reps – from Years 7 – 11, from every colour family • You get a chance to have a voice in school and look at children’s rights around the world

  8. Think of a place in school... • Draw what it would look like if it was respecting everyone’s rights?

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