Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/childrens-books-on-childrens-rights/5021256/
The impoverished neighborhood of Chilsitoon in Kabul is rich in community. Sigrullah, a 14-year-old member of the children’s committee of the Afghan Women’s Resource Center there, is one of the young people who shares her story in Kids of Kabul. Most of the children she talks to there are poor and hungry and victims of violence whose troubles are “bigger than we can solve”. But one of her responsibilities on the committee is to help the community grow toward the dignity that war has taken away. What she values most about Chilsitoon is its library, a place where discussion and understanding can begin, where children and adults alike can learn to find solutions to their problems and claim the respect that is their birthright.Here are some recent books for our children that acknowledge that they were all born with the right to learn, the right to be safe, the right to be respected, the right to just be a kid.
I Have the Right to be a Child by Alain Serres; illustrated by Aurelia Fronty (Groundwood Books, 2009); Ages 3�"7. Describes from the viewpoint of a child what it means to have rights, to be protected from harm �" and why, from ...