Vocabulary

Community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. It is also a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. 
Ethnicity is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. 
Name is a word, or a set of words, by which a person, animal, place or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. 
Nationality is the status of belonging to a particular nation. It can also be an ethnic group forming a part of one or more political nations. 
Register is an official list or record, for example of births, marriages, and deaths. The verb form is to enter or record on an official list or directory.
Spiritual Practice is of, relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. It is also of, or relating to religion, or religious belief.

Purpose - 
Identity in Community

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It is important that every child establish a clear understanding that they are entitled to be recognized as an individual within a community with a right to a nationality, ethnicity, and spiritual practice.   In this sub-unit, children define what their identity is in the context of their community. This includes each child defining their nationality, ethnicity, and spiritual practice. 
Child Asks: What is my identity within my community?
Children's Rights Education enables the child to identify one's identity within the community, including nationality, ethnicity, and spiritual practice. 
Child Answers: My community recognizes me as an individual. 

Classroom Learning Activities

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Relevant Convention Articles

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.

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