It is the convention with the largest number of signatures worldwide - the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and defines the rights of children. But what exactly does it say?
Children's rights set out the basic freedoms and opportunities children should have: Right to education, right to rest, play and leisure, access to media, and much more. Nevertheless, many children do not even know which rights they are actually entitled to. It is our aim to change this with our projects. Which children's rights exist, why are they important, and how are children's rights implemented in other parts of the world? This and much more is what the pupils learn in our project weeks and project days on the topic of children's rights! Here you can read short reports on the projects and see some of the digital results the children have produced.
What is the state of children's rights worldwide, in Tanzania and in Germany in 2022? In this project week, the children of Andersen Primary School embarked on a search for answers, exchanged views with children from Tanzania and interviewed people on the street. A video with all the answers and a report of the project week can be found here.
Three project weeks took place in winter 2019/2020 at different primary schools in Berlin. What does the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child consist of, why is it important, and what do children's living conditions look like in other parts of the world? Answers to these exciting questions were found by the children in an exchange with children from Tanzania and Uganda, for example.