Children and Young People's Rights Department
The Ararteko’s Children and Young People’s Rights Department, set up in 2010, ensures that the children's perspective is present throughout the institution's activity. In a similar way to the other areas of the organisation, it processes and investigates the queries and complaints submitted by children, directly or through their legal representatives, or any others affecting them.
This work, which is "reactive" to a certain extent to what somebody (a person, a group) or something (a possible violation of rights that comes to our attention through the media or other channels) reports to us, is supplemented by other more proactive lines of work. The lines include measures aimed at encouraging collective and collaborative networking, at disseminating the culture of the rights of the child and, in particular, at empowering children and young people to participate and be heard.
The institution of the Ararteko is committed to fostering behaviour within its organisation that is coherent with protecting and the best interest of the child. It is thus a safe institution for children and young people and therefore has a policy to protect children and young people. The policy embodies our organisation's commitment to the general protection goal and seeks to guarantee the highest personal and professional standards of conduct, so that no harm is done to children and young people when participating in activities or projects of the Ararteko.
Links of interest
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (2000)
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (2000)
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (2011)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (Ararteko)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Youth-friendly version (UNICEF)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version adapted for boys and girls from 6 to 8 years old (Save the Children, 2009)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version adapted for boys and girls from 9 to 11 years old (Save the Children, 2009)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version adapted for boys and girls from 12 to 14 years old (Save the Children, 2009)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version for boys and girls from 15 to 18 years old (Save the Children, 2009)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version adapted for boys and girls between 6 and 8 years old (Plataforma de Organizaciones de Infancia, 2011)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version adapted for boys and girls between 9 and 12 years (Plataforma de Organizaciones de Infancia, 2011)(Spanish)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child. Version adapted for boys and girls between 13 and 18 years ((Plataforma de Organizaciones de Infancia, 2011)(Spanish)
