I have my rights!
"I have my Rights!" Over the last few months, I've been hearing that statement a lot lately as we begin to see things opening up, but still await life to return to "normal" and protests are increasing with people saying we have rights and what our freedoms! Though it's tough, we know it's for a limited time, and are thankful that we live in a country with freedom and our rights are respected and valued. Sadly, it's not that way in many parts of the world. And it's often not that way for everyone - especially children. Thirty years ago, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which is an international human rights treaty that has become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. It basically states children are entitled to 4 basic rights - survival, protection, development and participation. Sounds pretty basic, doesn't i...