Children and their parents have the right to leave any country and to enter their own for purposes of reunion or the maintenance of the child-parent relationship. The State has an obligation to prevent and remedy the kidnapping or retention of children abroad by a parent or third party. The child has the right to express his or her opinion freely and to have that opinion taken into account in any matter or procedure affecting the child. The child has the right to express his or her views, obtain information, and make ideas or information known, regardless of frontiers. The State shall respect the child's right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, subject to appropriate parental guidance.
Children have a right to meet with others, and to join or form associations.
Article 16 - Protection of privacy Children have the right to protection from interference with privacy, family, home, and correspondence, and from libel or slander. The State shall ensure the accessibility to children of information and material from a diversity of sources, and it shall encourage the mass media to disseminate information which is of social and cultural benefit to the child, and take steps to protect him or her from harmful materials. Parents have joint primary responsibility for raising the child, and the State shall support them in this. The State shall provide appropriate assistance to parents in child-raising. The State shall protect the child from all forms of maltreatment by parents or other responsible for the care of the child and establish appropriate social programmes for the prevention of abuse and the treatment of victims.