Participation and Children's Rights

Participation and
Children’s Rights

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
What is meant by the term participation?...............................................................................1
What are the potential barriers and benefits of participation?................................................3
How can participation be promoted?......................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
References:.......................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................9
ONLINE.................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The children's development is the sound term that defines the growth of the brain,
emotional and cognitive intelligence and social growth and all of these are the essential rights of
the children. Children's have all right to speak and also they must be listened seriously as their
opinions matter (Bradwell, 2019). Children's can claim to their rights without any hesitation as
there are legal laws and legislations that protect the right of the Children's. Under the UNCRC
12 there are the right to participation for the Children's that include several rights such as right
to freedom of voice, right to freedom of expression, right to freedom to form an association and
right to information. All these rights of children's have huge significance in the development of
the children's and also through this there is creation of sense of accountability that realizes their
values and voice in the society. The present report is the discussion on the Article UNCRC 12
and children's right to participation. The report will answer three question what is meaning of
participation, potential barriers and benefits of participation and in the end how participation is
promotes is explained.
MAIN BODY
What is meant by the term participation?
From the term participation we can clearly identify it's meaning to take part in something.
Whether it's a class, competition, event, project, etc. working on that or having a share in that is
called participation. Participation plays a big role in everyone's life as it improves a person
personality; it helps both children’s and elders. Participation at every age is important for a
person to show his presence. But it plays a huge role in children’s life and children’s has right to
participate in any activity in which they want (McCafferty, 2017). Participation helps a person to
more confident and independent what they do, it also helps them in mental and physical strength
and make them more active, participation helps us to interact with people or socialize with
people and make the relations, it helps a person to improve and focus on their developing skills,
knowledge, decision making, creativity, etc. It also helps a person to overcome many types of
fear like fear of losing, stage fear, public speaking feared.
Participation teaches a person a lot rather than winning and losing, it makes the person
more confident and active which help them to achieve their goals. Active participation in various
events helps a person to improve their leadership skills as we can see every great leader have
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achieved their goals my participation in various activities and they always put their 100% and
learn many things from participation. Participation can also improve the communication skills of
a person and increase the person's motivation. Participation shows a huge image on your
personality as how you behave, how you’re express, how you talk, etc. and a person can work on
it by participating in various activities.
The UNCRC article 12 is the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child which
states that government must assure that all the children's who are capable of articulating their
own view point’s have a full right to express their views in all the topics that are under the
concern of the children (Warrington and Larkins, 2019). All the children despite of their culture,
who their parents are, where they live, rich or poor, what language they speak, what gender and
much all of them are equal and have right to participation (Conventions on the right of the child,
2009).
Committee on the Rights of the Child Emphasizes the critical role played by national human
rights institutions in promoting respect for the views of children by all Matters affecting their
establishment, organization and activities and this cannot be achieved Unless they directly
involve their children in their work. Children's participation is not only a right, but also a General
principles essential to the realization of all other rights. It is a necessary part of the guarantee the
best interests of the child.
The UNCRC article 12 is the right of the child to be listened which is the article of
convention on the rights of the child that clearly states the concept of child underlying within the
convention. This article is the legal history of the convention that tries to connect with best
interest of the children. Under this article 12 there are different practices manifold but now most
of the are summarized under the heading of participation.
Under the UNCRC article 12, it is stated that children and young people have a freedom to
be able to express their opinions and perspectives in all the subjects that affects them (Sime,
2017). In the UNCRC article 12 the continuous to states that child views must be given a due
weight. And also the convention asks more than just for hearing to the child. Participation is
good term used for expressing views of child and listening and providing the due weight to their
opinions, interests and goals. The term participation captures essential features of the convention.
Under this article the participation highlights that the child are also human who has all right to be
respected as an individual that has unique perception and perspective. As per the specialisation in
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