Your rights
The rights of a child:
- Right to life - Every child has a right to live and develop - the child’s life should not be endangered or taken prematurely.
- Right to health care - Every child has a right to good health care and services to prevent and treat sicknesses.
- Right to social security - All children have a right to social
security, which includes the provision of essential basic needs such as
food, shelter and clothing.
- Right to family life – Children have a right to a healthy and safe home with their parents or other family members.
- Right to education - All children have a right to attend school.
Education prepares a child to live in a free society in a spirit of
understanding peace and tolerance.
- Right to recreation - Every child has a right to have fun and have a time
to rest. After all, all work and no play makes Udeme a dull boy.
- Right to privacy - A state must protect a child’s private life and
protect the child from people who try to interfere with this privacy in
wrong or unlawful ways.
- Right to be protected - Children must not be treated cruelly, tortured
or punished in a cruel manner, and should not be sexually abused.
- Right to choice - Children have the right to chose their religious
beliefs, have ideas, think freely, speak freely and voice their
opinions.
- Right of the disabled child - Children with physical and mental
difficulties have the right to live a full and decent life in dignity.
They have the right to special care in areas of education, training and
health care.
