Vocabulary

Belong is to fit in or be a member of a specified place or environment such as one's community.
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. 
Exclusion is to deny someone access to, or to bar someone from, a place, group, or privilege.
Discrimination is the unjust, or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, ages, or sex.
Intolerance is the unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one's own. 
Social Justice implies fairness and mutual obligation in society, meaning that we are responsible for one another, and that we should ensure that all have equal chances to succeed in life. 

Purpose - Issues Relating to Inclusion

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In sub-unit 2.1 children identified that every child has a right to participate in a community regardless of their identity because it satisfies their need to belong. In this sub-unit, children analyze issues such as exclusion, discrimination, and intolerance that violate a child's right to an identity. They become more aware that the right to an identity is denied when people are intolerant and discriminatory towards others. 
Child Asks: What are the issues relating to identity, and how does this affect the right to participate in a community?
Children's Rights Education enables the child to analyze general issues of exclusion, discrimination, and intolerance.
Child Answers: Many children do not participate in a community as individuals.

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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