The 5th issue of «Migratory Birds» is devoted to November 20th, International Children’s Rights Day, and discusses some of those rights from a different angle: our aim is to show how the right to freedom of children and teenagers is being violated and devalued.
This time, our team of teenage journalists sat around a table with the International Convention on the Rights of the Child in front of us in five languages, Farsi, Dari, Arabic, English and Greek, to ensure that everyone could read and understand it. We researched, studied and made comparisons over several days. We discussed, agreed but also disagreed about the articles of the Convention and to what extent these are being adhered to in various countries.
And so we write without fear or hesitation, referring to articles 12, 13 and 14 of the Convention, according to which children have the right to state their views freely, to seek, receive and impart ideas, and to think and express themselves freely either orally or in writing
We write about things that concern us: how an unaccompanied minor feels in a foreign country, all alone, without his family; why a 14 year–old is forced to fight; why a child is forced into marriage; why a child is not asked before his or her photograph is published.
Forever hoping for a world free from injustice, the team of «Migratory Birds» would like to wish you: «Happy Reading».
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