DISABILITY CONVENTION: What do you think of the child-friendly version?

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UNICEF is calling all young people to contribute their ideas to the child-friendly text of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention is an agreement between countries to make sure that children and adults with disabilities are treated fairly and in the same ways as same as other people.

This online discussion gives you the opportunity to comment on the child-friendly text. Your contribution will help to put the Convention into the hands of children and young people. This way they will know what governments have promised to do to make sure that every child with disability has what they need  to grow, play, participate and go to school, and to reach their  full potential as others. 

Child-friendly text of the Convention [Word] [PDF]

Instructions:

  • Online: Read the Child friendly text of the Convention, fill in the online questionnaire here  and submit at the link provided.
  • Focus group:  Print out the questions, talk to young people and return the answers to [email protected], with “Child-Friendly Convention” in the subject line. Use the Facilitator’s Guide for help with conducting a focus group.

Deadline: for comments: 9 November 2007

The child-friendly verson of the Convention will also be discussed by children during the Middle East and North Africa regional consultation on children and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which is now underway in Sana'a, Yemen.
 

pdf: http://www.unicef.org/voy/media/Child_friendly_CRPD.doc

Issues: 
Children with disabilities
Attachment Link: 
http://www.unicef.org/voy/media/Child_friendly_CRPD.doc

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