Use #spejderneunicef when you’re visiting our activity and spread the message about the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
UNICEF and the danish guide and scout associations have created this activity for Jamboree Denmark 2022. Here you will learn more about the activity, UNICEF and the guide and scout associations and the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
View this video to get an understanding of children's rights
All Children have rights!
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was passed by the UN at a general meeting on the 20th of November 1989. Children were already included in the general human rights, but there was a need for special rights for children – which turned into the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Currently more than 190 countries have signed the convention, which makes it the convention with the higest number of countries backing it. The Convention applies for ALL children, no matter the nationality, sex, social status, religion, and culture.
As the children association branch of the UN, UNICEF is tasked with ensuring that the convenction is upheld in all countries. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the cornerstone in UNICEF’s work and we make sure to remind the governments to uphold what they promised when signing and that they obey the articles in the Convention.
The convention states, among other things, that all children have the right to survive. That they have the right to grow up under safe conditions and to develop. Children also have the right to be protected against abuse and discrimination, and they have the right to go to school and get an influence on their future.
(UNICEF’s website: - https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention)
Guides and Scouts of Denmark is a children and adolescent movement with over 70,000 members. We have activities for children, youth and adults, that challenges and helps develop our members. When we experience camps, trips, and activities together, communities form. It provides an opportunity for testing the boundaries in both small and grand scale.
We use outdoor life as a setting for our activities. It must be both fun, challenging and provide a change for developing when we are together.
Guides and Scouts of Denmark is an umbrella organization, that represents the five Danish scouting and guiding associations: Danish Guide and Scout Association, KFUM Scouts (YMCA, YWCA), The Green Girl Guides, Danish Baptist Guide and Scout Association, and The Danish Scouts of Southern Schleswig. The five scouting and guiding associations have in many years collaborated in different projects, and in 2015 joined the five danish scouting and guiding associations together in the joint association Guides and Scouts of Denmark (Spejderne)
(Spejderne.dk)
03 Engelsk konvention x6.pdf