*The society’s treatment of the child is a measure of its humanity and freedom.
*The rights of the child take precedence over any national, racial, economic, political, ideological, and religious consideration or interest.
* Right to life is the most essential right of the child, therefore body and soul of the child must be immune from all violence.
*The child is not anyone’s private possession. mother, father and state are not the owner of the child.
*A child means every human being below the age of eighteen years.
- 1- Ensuring a happy, secure, creative life for the child
society is responsible for ensuring the well-being of every child irrespective of her/his family’s means and circumstances. The state is obliged to ensure a uniform, and the highest possible, standard of welfare and development opportunities for the child and youngsters.
The following contends must be legalized.
1)-Ensuring the highest possible, standard of health and safety. All Medicare and treatment must be guaranteed and free of charge.
2)-Ensuring a free and mandatory education for all children from kinder garden to the 12 grade of school. All children from an early age must be educated in either, painting, music, sculpture, art metal, drama, theater, cinema and sport. *(all colleges and universities should be free of charges. In which all persons are allowed to enter regardless of religious belief, gender, sexual orientation, financial status).
3)-Ensuring a suitable accommodation with the highest standard of living for all, especially for families with children.
4) State must directly supervise the child’s nutrition. All children must have proper, healthy and sufficient food. All children must have free food at schools, kinder gardens and daycare centers.
5)- State must place all children without a family or familial care under the guardianship of state, and provide for their life and education in modern, caring, progressive and well-equipped centers to prevent Child ‘s physical and mental and personal corrosion.
6)- All children must have access to well equipped, modern nurseries to ensure that they are provided with a creative educational and social environment regardless of family circumstances.
7)-State must ensure special pre-natal and post-natal heath care and nutrition for mothers and the infants, regardless of family circumstances.16 weeks’ maternity leave and one year’s leave for child care. Implementation of special rules and standards at enterprises to allow women to have secure employment and professional carriers. Assigning light work to pregnant women.
8)- State must provide appropriate assistance, ie, specialist nurse, counsellor to parents specially mothers in the performance of their child-rearing responsibilities. And must ensure the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care (heath, nutrition and hygiene) of infants and children.
9)- State must provide material and moral support to single parents. Special support to mothers who have separated or born their children outside marriage, in the face of economic difficulties or reactionary cultural and ethical pressures.
10)-State must ensure enjoyable, decent life for a mentally or physically disabled children and facilitate the child’s active participation in the community, regardless of family circumstances. Provide appropriate heath care, education, transportation, community services, rehabilitation, accessibility and disability programs.
11)-State must provide material and moral support to youth who are not able to live with their own family environment, for any number of reasons (** ie. In whose best interests can not be allowed to remain in his/her family environment) or have already left their family.
12)-State must take appropriate measures to fight against drug addiction in children. Helping youth off drugs through rehabilitation programmes. Sever punishment for illicit production, and trafficking of drug among children.
13)- State must ensure all refugee children whether unaccompanied or accompanied by his or her parents or by any person, receive full protection. All children who are seeking refugee status must benefit all achieved in social.
14)- State must diminish infant and child mortality through effective measures by promoting various medical researches, and by proving healthy nutrition, health care and hygiene environment to live.
2-Protection of all children from physical and emotional of abuse at home, in school and society at large.
In order to protect all children from all forms of physical and mental and sexual abuse The following rules not only must get legalized, but also government, legislative, administrative, and children’s rights organizations must enforce the law. Anyone who disobey these legal actions must deemed a grave crime and be persecuted.
1)- Prohibition of professional employment of children under the age of 16. prohibition of child slavery.
2)- Heavy punishment for abduction of, the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or any form.
3)-Crucial legal action against exploitation use of children in prostitution or other sexual practices, exploitative use of children in pornographic, performances and materials. Exploitative use of children is deemed a grave criminal crime.
4)-Prohibition of imprisonment of children. No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty. No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or other degrading treatment or punishment. And Prohibition of making child confess.
5)- Abolishing capital punishment in general. No child shall be subjected to capital punishment.
6) – Any forms of neglect that prevents the child from his or her essential needs while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any governmental and non governmental organizations that has the care of the child must face prosecution.
7)- Prohibition of performing medical, pharmaceutical or any surgical experiments and test on the children not relevant to his or her health.
8)- Prohibition of abuse and violation of the child’s body and mind. Violation against children for given any reasons, religion, tradition or cultural practices should be treated as serious offences. Prohibition of child’s mutilation and circumcision.
9) Physical punishment or any psychological pressure, or threat to a child must be considered a serious crime and must be persecuted.
10)-Prohibition of abuse of children at home, in schools and the society at large, prohibition of subjecting children to psychological pressure and intimidation.
11)-Prohibition of travel and movement of children without taking in to consideration of the child’s well-being and independency. Prohibition of deporting children.
12)-Prohibition of children below the age of 18 to engage in any armed forces/secret military, or take part in war.
13)-Prohibition of taking captive civilians specially children.
Prohibition of any discrimination against girls
1)-Prohibition of imposing housework or specifically housekeeping duties on the girls in the family.
2)- Prohibition of hejab (hear cover/veil) on girls and abolition of any restriction on the girls to participate in sport, art, recreation activities in which boys are allowed.
3)-Imposition of sever penalties on abuse, intimidation, restriction of freedom, degradation and violent treatment of women and girls in the family.
4)-Prohibition of any form of degrading, male-chauvinistic, patriarchal and unequal treatment of girls in public institutions.
5)- *Prohibition of interference by any family members or relatives, authority in private lives of girls over 16 and their personal, emotional and sexual relationships. Prohibition of examine virginity in girls unless it is relevant to the girl’s health.
6)-Elimination of any prejudiced and degrading references to women from text book and educational material, and inclusion, instead of special courses and teaching material on the issue of women’s equality.
Opposing interference of religions on the child’s life
1)- Protection of children from all forms of material and spiritual manipulation by religions and religious institutions.
2)- Prohibition of attracting persons under 16 to religious sect or religious ceremonies and locations.
3)- Subjecting religious dogmas, traditions and habits that incompatible with children’s health and hygiene.
4)- Prohibition of all religious law and regulation that is incompatible with children’s creative and happy life. And prevent the child to participate in social and leisure activities.
5)- Complete separation of religion from education.
6) All schools and educational establishments must be coeducational.
7) Prohibition of any religious school for children. Prohibition of teaching religious subjects or religious interpretation of subjects in school and educational establishments. Sexual education should be a compulsory part of high school curricula. All children should receive seual education, and instruction on contraceptive methods and safe sex.
8)-Omission of all law and regulations that breaches the principle of secular non –religious education. Oversight all religious symbols at schools ie: wearing or carrying.
9)-Omission of any kind of reference in the official calendar to religious occasions and dates. Any force and coerce
Civil and social rights of children
To eliminate all kinds of discrimination against children the following rights must be legalized:
1)- Complete equality of children irrespective of their gender, colour, race, nationality, religion, social condition of his or her family.
2)- Equal rights for all children, whether born in or outside marriage.
3)- Equality rights for all children whether they are living with their biological family or non biological or living under the guardianship of children’s state.
4)-The child has right to seek and know the truth about all area of social life.
5)- The child has right to express his or her views and emotion freely. And the view of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
6)-The child has right to leisure, play, relaxation and rest. The right to adequate necessities for participating in culture, art, and sport activities.
7)-The right to socialize and have a social life. Prohibition of segregation of children from the social environment and denying them opportunity of association with others.
8)-The legal age of consent for both girls and boys is 16 years. Sexual relationship of adults (persons over the age of consent) with under –age persons, even if they agree is illegal. And adult party is prosecuted under the law.
9)- The right of every couple over 16 to live together by their own choice. Any form of coercion of individuals by any person or authority in choice of their partner, in cohabition (or marriage) or in separation (or divorce) is prohibited.
10)- unconditional rights for all person over 16, in the choice of residence., education and types of work. Freedom to travel and choose place of residence, whether inside or outside the country.
11)- Abolishing of man’s privileges as the so –called “head of the household” and laying down of equal rights and obligations for women and man regarding:
* the care upbringing of children, even after separation,
* control and running of family’s finance, inheritance, choice of residence,
*Housework and professional employment,
*Divorce, and in case of separation, custody of children and division of, and claims to , the family’s property,
*The decision on the child’s surname if no agreement is reached, the child takes the mother’s surname.
12)-Children are not criminal, even, when they broke the laws.
13)-Inviobality of children’s privacy. Inviobality of children’s correspondence and conversation.
14)-The right of every person over 16 to run for any representative body and to hold any elected position or office.
15)- Equal rights for refugees’ children with other residence.
16)-To ensure the right of the child who is separated from one or both parents to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis. Even when a child’s parents reside in different states must have the right to maintain on a regular basis.
17)- Guaranteed full and unconditional freedom for organizing non-governmental, organizations and institutions defending the rights of the child.
