Rights

Children's or young people's rights are a central theme that should guide the action of all of us in order to ensure growth and development with freedom, justice and equality. In this section you will find references to the right to health, education and development and to the more specific rights of women and minorities. You can also find references to citizenship, democratic participation and sustainable development, among others.

White Paper on Child Participation in Portugal

The CNPDPCJ produced the bilingual White Paper on Child Participation in Portugal (Portuguese and English) as part of the CP4 Europe project. You can consult it here:

I have rights, you have rights, he/she has rights...

These materials aim to promote the rights of children and young people, as well as to protect them from violence. It is aimed at young people who want to know more about their rights and the steps the government should take to promote them.

Rights Passport

This passport will take you on a journey through some of your rights. The journey has six stops along the way to your final destination. At each stop, you'll learn more about what your rights are and we'll ask you to do a little exercise. After this, you can get a visa for the rights you have just explored. This means that you will be prepared to defend yourself better when people do not respect these rights and that you can also help other children to do the same.

Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Education for Rights

This document explains the foundations of the Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education, designed to promote the human rights values of democracy and the rule of law.

Citizenship - origins of a word and a concept

A text where Citizenship is explained to young people... and others

Rights and duties

Rights and Duties of Children and Young People under the Constitution. What are your rights as a human being?

National Election Commission - Stop Complaining

Video explaining what elections are and the right to vote.

International Women's Day - Women's Rights are Human Rights

Campaign of the Secretariat of State for Citizenship and Equality, for the promotion of gender equality in school and community context, explained to young people.

The importance of each in the group and respect

Animated video, with five different stories that speak in a comic and very expressive way about the concepts of respect, unity, group, community, support.

Rights of children and young people

Video about children's rights where children and young people talk about their rights.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

This website narrates the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the first legal instrument that recognizes - and requires recognition - the rights and freedoms of children and young people as human beings with human rights.

The World's Greatest Lesson

This video is about the biggest Lesson in the World and is intended to introduce children and young people, promoting reflection and action, in a playful and interactive way, the new Sustainable Development Goals that were adopted by the UN General Assembly.

Rights of victims of crime

Website informative video about victims of crime, in a space that also addresses the equal rights of immigrant citizens.

Age assessment

If you have to take age assessment medical tests, you have rights that must be respected...This situation can happen when you arrive in a country and there are doubts about your age. For example, if you travel alone or alone and you don't have any ID documents to prove your age. Or if you're with an adult person who says he knows your age, but doesn't have any documents to prove he's responsible for you.

Proving your age is very important!

Because anyone under the age of 18 is considered a child and children have special rights.

In these brochures you will find all the information on age assessment in two versions: Portuguese and bilingual (English and French).