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Uttarkashi |Workshops

Workshop on Child Rights

Partner Organisation : Nav Chetna Shiksha Sansthan, Purola
               District: Uttarkashi

          Supported by : MCF

Workshop Report

May 23rd, 2010

MCF conducted a 1 day workshop on child rights in the village  of Purola with their partner organization Nav Chetna Shiksha Sansthan. 42 children along with their teachers attended the workshop which commenced with a few games so that the children could introduce and familiarize themselves with each other.

The participants of the workshop were given an insight into the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by the MCF president.

In order to make the children understand their rights better a game was initiated where 4 trees were drawn on charts and each tree depicted one right i.e. Right to Survival, Right to Participation, Right to Development and Right to Protection. All other rights are a subset of these rights. The children discussed each right in turn and had to decide which tree it was to be hung on.

These are just some of the Rights of the Child as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They have been simplified and made relevant for children in the mountains to understand

Right to Survival
Right to life
Right to birth registration
Right to Health
The Right to complete immunisation
Right to be safe from child hood illnesses
Right to Nutrition
The right of a new born to breast feeding
Right of a new born child to nutritional food
Right to life for children with disabilities
Right to regular medical check ups
Right to access and use of clean drinking water
Right to a name and nationality             

Right to development
Right to Education
Girl child’s right to security 
The right to equality for both girls and boys
No gender discrimination between girls and boys
The right to equal access to opportunity to participate in  games
The right of protection of their culture
The right to protection from sexual exploitation
The right to stay with both parents
Right against Child labour
The right to education on Sexual health
The right to vocational education
Access to information for social moral spiritual well being an physical and mental growth
The right to rest, leisure and play
The right of dignity and security for children with disabilities
Right to protection of a child’s environment 
Right to protection against water born diseases 

Right to Security
Elimination of Child Labour
Right to protection from hazardous occupations
Right to protection against substance abuse
The facility of a separate court for children
Right to education for Child Labourers
Right of the child to be protected form economic exploitation

Right to Participation
Right to freedom of association and to assemble peacefully
Right to participation in school
Right to voice their opinions in a Village Panchyat
Right to give their opinion at home
Right to participation in Developmental work
The right of child participation for disaster mitigation and management
The right to participation for children with disabilities

At the end of the exercise the children then discussed which rights they had and how they could try and attain the rights which they still lacked.

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