This website is about children’s rights. 

Children’s rights is a very wide topic as it touches on every aspect of children’s lives.

In summary, children have the right to survival and protection and the right to develop to their full potential. They also have the right and responsibility to help build a better world in partnership with adults.

On this website you can find information on children’s rights including:

• Policy and laws that uphold children’s rights, such as the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, the South African Bill of Rights, and others.
• Resources, news, and advocacy campaigns on particular issues affecting children such as education, family life, discipline, poverty, violence, HIV/AIDS, disability, and many others. 
• The voice of children themselves especially in the photo-documentary “Visions & Voices: Children’s Rights & Realities”.

Children’s Rights in the Midst of the Public Sector Worker Strike

The nation is holding its breath in hopeful anticipation that an agreement will be reached soon between the Government and trade unions that will bring the public service strike action to a close. However the violence, intimidation and disruption to critical education and health services across the country are of grave concern, especially in light of the clear obligations to keep education and health facilities and services freely open and functioning.

Children’s Rights Centre issued a statement on children’s rights in the midst of the public sector worker strike. We are calling for children’s sector organisations to endorse it and join us in standing up for the rights of all people: children and adults, workers and learners. We will need to work together in the coming days and months to address the fundamental issues, and to build and sustain justice and peace.

Download the statement here. Send your endorsements to hema@crc-sa.co.za