Welcome to...Human Rights Are Your Rights OnlineHuman Rights belong to everyone, regardless of how old or how young they may be. This means that children’s rights have equal status to adults’ rights. However, children and young people can often struggle to find information about their rights or how to take action if their rights have been violated. To help to rectify this the National Children’s Bureau has produced a Human Rights are Children’s Rights guide and some supporting materials. The guide has been written to make sure that people who work with children and young people are familiar with human rights legislation. We have tried to make it clear and practical in order to encourage anyone who uses it to sit down with the children and young people they work with to talk about how the Human Rights Act 1998 can help and support them. The guide provides basic information on the Human Rights Act 1998 and some background to children’s rights agreements such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also provides a number of case studies to illustrate how the Human Rights Act has been used in different ways to ensure that children’s rights have been protected. To purchase your copies of the guide please click hereThe guide and website are produced by the National Children’s Bureau. The guide is sponsored by Participation Works.
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