All the children worldwide have rights. There are the Human rights for all human beings, so also for children. Then, there are the Rights of the Child, which are only for children and no one else.

Those Rights of the Child are for all the children without any discrimination, so you, your classmates, your friends, the children in you neigbourhood, the children from other countries, in short, all the children around the world!

By child is meant every person under the age of eighteen, be it a baby, a primary school child or a teenager from middle or high school.

The mission of those rights is to protect children and they have to be respected by all the States that signed and ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, a text, which combines all the rights of the child for their protection. 

Nowadays, every single State has signed the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and only two States didn’t ratify it : Somalia and the United States.

The government in Somalia wanted to ratify the International Convention on the Rights of the Child on the 20th January 2015 but they got swamped by a lot of other problems. 

The United States couldn’t ratify the International Convention on the Rights of the Child because some federal States of the United States still used the death penalty on children. 

Summarized, the Convention says that you must be treated the same way as other children, you have the right to live and grow up without violence, you can say your opinion, you must be listened to and all the decision concerning you should be taken with your well-being in mind.

You can find a simplified version of the Rights of the Child here.

If you want to know more about the Rights of the Child, you can find a few links about it here.