March 2022 – Articles 17, 29 and 31

Last week we celebrated World Book Day. We linked this to 3 of our rights.

 

Article 17 (access to information from the media): Every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources, and governments should encourage the media to provide information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them.

 

Article 29 (goals of education): Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures and the environment.


Article 31 (leisure, play and culture): Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.

 

The benefits of reading are huge as they help us to learn new things, calm us to go to sleep, escape to a different world and help us to connect to other people.

 

Keep on reading!