National Human Rights Consultation Submission 

AGWW-7R5BCE 

Name: Sharynne McLeod 

Submission Text: 

The following articles from the United Nations Convention on
 
the Rights of the Child are quoted broadly in current research programs
 
that are aimed at understanding the views of children within the following
 
contexts: early childhood, primary schooling, childhood disability. They
 
should continue to be upheld within the Australian context.
 

 

 
ARTICLE 12: Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his
 
or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters
 
affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in
 
accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
 
ARTICLE 13:The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this
 
right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and
 
ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or
 
in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s
 
choice.
 
UNICEF. (1989). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
 
(UNCRC). http://www.unicef.org/magic/briefing/uncorc.html 

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