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Direct Aim
To participate in a community as an individual with an identity.
Indirect Aim1. To establish clear knowledge of one's identity.
2. To participate in a community to satisfy one's need to belong. 3. To practice acceptance of diversity regardless of identity. |
Diversity Individuality Inclusion Acceptance
Identity Sub-Unit Topic
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Convention Articles that Relate to this Right
Article 2
1. States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.
2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members.
Article 7
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.
Article 8
1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law without unlawful interference.
2. Where a child is illegally deprived of some or all of the elements of his or her identity, States Parties shall provide appropriate assistance and protection, with a view to re-establishing speedily his or her identity.
Article 30
In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own language.
1. States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.
2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members.
Article 7
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.
Article 8
1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law without unlawful interference.
2. Where a child is illegally deprived of some or all of the elements of his or her identity, States Parties shall provide appropriate assistance and protection, with a view to re-establishing speedily his or her identity.
Article 30
In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own language.
"In Latin America and the Caribbean, 18% of children under the age of five years of age, approximately one out of six, are not registered."
(UNICEF - Public Policy Issues 2007)
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UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child by Shannon Gibson. Animated by Noureddin Zarrinkelk.
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Unit Resources and References
- Bjawi-Levine, Laure. (N.D.). Childrens' Rights Discourse and Identity Ambivalence in Palestinian Refugee Camps. Jerusalem Quarterly 37 pp. 75-85. Retrieved from: http://www.palestine-studies.org/files/pdf/jq/10293.pdf
- Cameron, Lindsey. (2003). The Right to and Identity. European Roma Rights Centre. Retrieved from: http://www.errc.org/article/the-right-to-an-identity/1066
- Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children - Right to Family, Identity and Culture (2011)
- Facing History and Ourselves
- Gomes de Andrade, Noberto Nuno (2010). Human Genetic Manipulation and the Right to Identity: The Contradictions of Human Rights Law in Regulating the Human Genome. Retrieved from: http://www2.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol7-3/andrade.asp
- Humanium Help the Children - The Right to Identity: Understanding children's right to identity
- New Brunswick Office of the Ombudsman and Child and Youth Advocate - The Right to Identity, Culture, and Language: A Child's Path to Development.
- Ronen, Ya'ir. (2004). Redefining the Child's Right to Identity. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from: http://lawfam.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/2/147.abstract
- Ronen, Ya'ir. (2009). On the Child's Right to Identity, the Best Interests of the Child and Human Dignity. Prepared for the 13th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "World Peace through Humiliation-Free Global Human Interactions," Honolulu, Hawaii, August 20, 2009.
- Scolnicov, Anat. (2007). The Child's Right to Religious Freedom and Formation of Identity. International Journal of Children's Rights. 15, 1-17. Retrieved from: http://www.academia.edu/325685/The_Childs_Right_to_Religious_Freedom_and_Formation_of_Identity
- UNICEF - Challenges: The right to an identity: Birth registration in Latin America and the Caribbean
- UNICEF - Public Policy Issues: Birth Registration and Children
- UNICEF - The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Survival and developmental rights: the basic rights to life, survival and development of one's full potential.
