Raise awareness about the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Challenge your peers!

Take the Facebook quiz on children’s rights, post your score and challenge your friends. All the information you need to pass with flying colors is in the toolkit. So, here’s your chance not only to show up your friends, but also to share some information about the issue!

Hold a debate

The CRC hasn’t been ratified in the United States and there is still a lot of controversy over it 20 years after it was written. Find out why and explore the issues with a class, the school, your chapter, or your community.

Divide into teams of a few people each and research both the reasons to support the CRC and the reasons to vote against it. Then, with someone to moderate (either a teacher or a student), have the teams debate. Give each side fair uninterrupted time to state their case before giving time to respond to the problems raised from both. At the end open it up for questions and discussion. Respect is key to a successful debate!

*It may not be easy to get enough people to fill both sides. Remember its OK to present a side you disagree with during the debate, but leave time afterward for people to talk about how they personally feel and to talk about the experience.

Poster the school with children’s rights

This can be as simple as one right per poster, an A to Z of children’s rights (keeping with the children’s theme), or something more challenging like different benefits of children’s rights or child participation.

Hold a Day of Silence

Engage your school in children’s rights by running a day of silence to spread awareness about children that don’t have rights. Design t-shirts or wear a specific color to look uniform and pledge to remain completely silent for the entire school day. This is a metaphor for the millions of children around the world who do not have a voice in what happens to them.