World Children's Day 2019

Down Hall marked World Children's Day 2019 by completing a range of activities including looking at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 20th November marks the 30 year anniversary of its ratification (approved). It applies to everyone under the age of 18. You are still considered to be a child until then. Rights like: Every Child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.

So what's the problem?

Despite the UN agreeing to the rights of every child 30 years ago, their is still a lot of work to be done for children in the UK and all over the world.

• Every year, 5.4 million children die before the age of five. The majority of these deaths are from preventable causes.
• Children face many challenges now that didn’t exist before – such as online bullying, childhood obesity and climate change.
• More countries are in conflict than at any time since the Convention was written and many children are among the millions of refugees from these conflicts.

  We are going to learn about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights in the past and present day. We will also imagine the best possible future for children all over the world.