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Show the World Your Rights

Show the World Your Rights
Contest Start: 
Friday, November 20, 2009
Contest End: 
January 20, 2010

What are your rights? What do they mean to you?

On November 20th, 2009, the world will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This document outlines what children have the right to and responsibilities for. For example, children have the rights to education, health, participation and protection from abuse and exploitation, but children also have the responsibility to respect the rights of other children and youth.   
 
We can often take our rights for granted. They just are. That is, until they aren’t. Many children around the world are still denied their rights 20 years later. The UN CRC was signed by all but two of the world’s countries as a legally binding agreement to give children the care and special protection they require. However, governments don’t always live up to their obligations.
 
The 54 articles and two Optional Protocols within the document lay out a child’s rights to: 
Things that are done for children in their best interest 
Life, survival and development 
Protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation 
Participate fully in decisions that impact them. 
 
In honour of this day, Plan and Nokia challenge you to take a photo of you exercising one or more of your rights and briefly describe what it or they mean to you. The winner from Canada, as decided by a panel of judges, will receive an iPod Touch and be featured on this website. The top three winners from all of Africa, as decided by a panel of judges, will receive Nokia Xpress Music phones and be featured on this website. The contest will end on January 20, 2010, so enter soon!
 
Exercise your rights in support of those who can't.
Prize(s): 

Winner from Canada:  iPod Touch + be featured on this website

Top Three Winners from all of Africa: Nokia Xpress Music phones + be featured on this website.


How to Enter: 

Upload your photo(Drunk and response to planyouth.org!
** Make sure you choose the "Show the World Your Rights" contest.

How to Vote: 

Take a look at past entries; then click on one in order to choose how many stars you think it should get.