Child-friendly version of the Children’s Rights Report 2019
Access the 2019 Children's Rights Report in child-friendly language, showing how Australia can better protect and support children and young people.
Summary
The report tells the Australian Government how it can do better in looking out for children and young people.
This version is for children and young people.
Child-friendly version of the Children’s Rights Report 2019
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What is the Children's Rights Report 2019?
The report tells the Australian Government how it can do better in looking out for children and young people. The version on this page is for children and young people.
What are human rights?
Our human rights are the things we all need to have a good life. They also make sure we are kind and fair to each other.
Children's rights are written down in a document called the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child .
As a child, you have the right to:
- be treated fairly
- have a say about decisions affecting you
- live and grow up healthy
- get information that is important to you
- be safe, no matter where you are or who you are with
- be cared for and have a home
- privacy
- get an education
- know who you are and where you come from.
How are children in Australia doing?
Most children in Australia live in safe, healthy environments and do well, but there are many children whose rights are not well protected.
Some of the children who need better protection include children with disabilities, children in care, children in remote and rural Australia, children from different cultural backgrounds and LGBTI children.
The United Nations
There is a special group of people called the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child . These people watch out for children all over the world and tell governments how they can better protect children's rights.
In 2019, the Committee looked at what life is like for children in Australia and told the Australian Government what it could do to make things better.
Australian governments have promised to make sure that all the children living in Australia get all the children living in Australia get