Education on Human and Child Rights
What are Human Rights and Child Rights?
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to everyone without exception from birth and are the ground-rules for treating people with dignity, respect, equality and fairness. Human rights are a set of ideals rooted in all cultures and religions and codified in the UN declarations and treaties that emerged after World War II, most of which are embedded in national laws.
Human rights include:
the right to life
freedom from slavery and torture
freedom of religion and expression
the right to privacy
the right to rest and leisure
the rights to work, to education
to health and an adequate standard of living
freedom from discrimination.
Human rights take in child rights (protected by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), workers rights (covered by Conventions of the International Labour Organization) and rights of other groups.
In 2019, Positive Impact Events began a collaboration with the the UK Committee for UNICEF (Unicef UK) to produce resources to support an event to be planned with the consideration of Human Rights and Child Rights. This guidance is a consultation draft that will be able to be used as part of an event organiser’s implementation of ISO 20121. Find out more about the ISO 20121 review process.
In 2022, the guidance was completed and can be used to implement the consideration of human and child rights and safeguarding when planning an event whether it is a conference, sales meeting, festival or sporting event.
You can also download a one-pager on how to read the human rights guidance.
Education materials
The following education materials have been created to help #eventprofs take into consideration human rights and child rights when planning an event.
Animated Videos
Understanding Human Rights
UN Guiding Principles on Human and Business Rights
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Podcasts
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Podcast
How to Talk to Management about Human Rights Podcast
Practical tips
These practical tips can support you when planning an event with consideration of Human Rights and Child Rights:
You could create an activity at your event to facilitate inclusion and participation from all attendees.
You could implement a new process in your event planning to have time to talk to your stakeholders about whether anyone's human rights could be impacted by your event.
You could implement a new process in your event planning, to ensure diversity of attendees, by looking at how diversified your event attendee list is (for example, different backgrounds, religions and origins) and implementing actions to reach new audiences.
Want more tips?
Download our 6 top tips on planning an event with the consideration for human rights and child rights.
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