Children's rights now! - We celebrate World Children's Day

Children's rights now! - This is the motto under which World Children's Day is celebrated in Germany today. This day is intended to draw attention to the special rights of children. In keeping with this year's motto, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published the new General Comment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in child-friendly language.

Young people come into contact with media at a very early age. Almost every child now has access to the internet and uses it daily. Nevertheless, many questions arise about the implementation of children's rights on the Internet. & nbsp;The German Children's Fund and UNICEF Germany underline with this year's motto "Children's rights now!"& nbsp; in this election year, the German Children's Fund and UNICEF Germany nbsp; underline that it is urgently time to anchor children's rights in the Basic Law and thus set the course for a more child-friendly Germany.

With the publication of the General Comment by the UN Committee, experts on children's rights in the digital world are working together to make them better known. They also want to ensure that the obligations in the area of children's rights are taken into account and included in legislative changes. In order to make the new provisions understandable even for the youngest children, the General Comment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is now also available online in child-friendly language.

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