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Megan Mitchell National Children’s
Commissioner 20 August 2014
Children’s rights in a changing world
Association of Children’s Welfare AgenciesConference 2014
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Children in the Middle Ages
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1636
Portrait of a Boy aged Two
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The child as the innocent - 18th Century
Portrait by Arthur Devis of an unknown boy in a landscape, circa 1745.
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Oliver asks for more food
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838
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Children in the19th Century
Children at Crumpsall Workhouse, circa 1895, National Archives UK.
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The age of children’s literature
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there”Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll, 1865 )
1957
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne, 1925
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The case of Mary Ellen McCormack - 1874
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Four children bound for Fairbridge Farm School in Molong, 1938, National Archives of Australia)
Out-of-home care - Australia
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Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1924)
Youth activists in a 1909 parade protesting child labour, George Brantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress. Child labour in the U.S, U.S Library
of Congress.
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Piaget’s theory of cognitive development – 1930s
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Guiding principles of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC)
Non-discrimination (Article 2)
Best interests of the child (Article 3)
Right to life, survival and development (Article 6)
Respect for the views of the child (Article 12)
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Optional Protocols to the CRC1. Protection against the
targeting of children in situations of armed conflict
2. Protection of the child from the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
3. A communications procedure, to allow individual children to submit complaints regarding specific violations of their rights under the CRC.
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UN Committee’s Concluding Observations on Australia
High levels of violence against women and children; Serious discrimination faced by Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander children; Lack of measures to address violence against
children; Inadequate programs for reintegration of child
domestic violence victims; Inadequate application of ‘best interests’ principle in
treatment of asylum seeking children; High number of children in out-of-home care.
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Children in immigration detention
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Australian child protection and out-of-home care statistics (2012-13)
40,549 children in out-of-home care
135,139 received child protection services
Aboriginal children 8 times as likely to receive child protection services
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Life would be better for children and young people in Australia
if…
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The changing nature of children’s worlds
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The changing nature of children’s rights
Article 16:
“No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour or reputation…”
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What children and young people said about privacy
“Children don’t know enough about privacy.”
“There should be a lot of ways to stop people from breaking your privacy.”
“Children might just think that everywhere they go they are safe.”
“Privacy is important at school, home and online.”
“Privacy should be everywhere because sometimes people don’t feel safe.”
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Cyber-bullying experiences in children
4% of 8-9 year olds
21% of 14-15 year olds
16% of 16-17 year olds
“Some young people send things around without you knowing for revenge or fun”
“It’s really hard to get bad stuff about you taken down”
Young people at a Brisbane Flexible Learning Centre, 2014
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The CRC: A tool for empowerment