This document was written four years after the UN 'Declaration of Human Rights' to define more clearly what children's rights are. The Plain Language Version of the 'Rights of the Child' is given below. This version can be downloaded and printed or you may want to use the text to create an overhead transparency or a large poster for the classroom. The information can be used as a focus for discussion with groups or with the whole class. After discussion, use the 'Rights of the Child' as the basis for a book.
Students choose one of the rights and either draw an illustration for it or write a story about it.
Organise the format for publishing so both the illustrations and the stories can be combined into the same book. You may want to use the list of rights as chapter headings. When the book is finished, the class could organise a book launch and involve the school and the larger community. Links could be made to ideas for action in the local community. More Resources There are several units from the Discovering Democracy School Materials Project that have activities and information related to this topic.