حقوق الطفل ولماذا هي مهمة

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Making a change with a child rights approach

This online training aims to: raise awareness and understanding of children’s rights and the child rights approach, highlighting its importance to UNICEF, encourage greater attention to it, and inspire and motivate all UNICEF staff and partners worldwide. It also encourages staff and partners to improve the practical application of the child rights approach.

 

 Educational objectives:

By the end of this course you will be able to:

1- Change or update your awareness (or both), understand and appreciate children’s rights and the children’s rights approach in a way that makes them easy to remember and fixes them in memory;

2- Describing children’s rights, and explaining how the children’s rights approach differs from other approaches such as the child-centered approach or the charity and social welfare approaches;

3 - Interpreting and describing UNICEF's mandate in terms of its relationship to promoting, protecting and achieving children's rights;

4- A description of UNICEF's involvement in supporting the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

5- Communicating with partners and employees regarding raising awareness and understanding of children’s rights and the children’s rights approach, and then training them subsequently by recommending people;

6- Start thinking about ways to apply what has been learned in daily and practical life.

 

 The audience

• UNICEF staff (country offices, regional offices and headquarters)

• National Committee staff

• UNICEF and National Committee advisors, trainees, volunteers, goodwill ambassadors and National Committee city council members. 

• UNICEF government, civil society and corporate partners as appropriate.
  
  

 Duration

This self-improvement course should take 75 minutes to complete . 

 methodology

This course consists of one short, self-paced unit. Each section presents "key messages" accompanied by colorful cartoons, followed by a short video providing further information. The videos feature UNICEF staff and partners, and children. 

Its instructors and members are members of the general public from all over the world. These videos are available with and without audio description. Finally, there is a concluding activity that encourages you to reflect on what you have learned in each section and, ultimately, in the course as a whole.
 

Composition

This course consists of 8 sections

1- Introduction

2- Children's rights and their importance to UNICEF

3- The relationship between children's rights and human rights, needs and well-being

4- Child Rights Approach

5- Bringing about change through a child rights approach

6- Implementing children's rights: A child rights and equity approach to our work

7- Answering difficult questions about children's rights

8- Summary

 Contact information

  Content-related issues: Mary Warnham:  
Terence Hamilton,thamilton@unicef.org

Technical questions:
  agora@unicef.org