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Children’s rights

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How do children fit in to our society? This free course will help you to understand the issues surrounding children's rights as well as examining the implications of seeing children as citizens. You will also explore the meaning of childhood and analyse children's needs.

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After studying this course, you should be able to:

define the broad issue of children as citizens.

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First Published: 09/08/2012

Updated: 20/03/2018

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Cristina Juliana Cadenas 6 May 2026 5:48PM

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It's amazing how they tackled the rights of the children. I think this is something that should be talked about more especially in the Philippines where people my age experienced not being able to say what they want to say because they don't have the right to.

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Amanda Rarity 11 March 2026 1:10PM

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learned a lot in this course

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