A Fairer World

Children engage in a project for a world where their rights are respected

By participating in the project A Fairer World, children become spokespersons for their rights, creatively expressing what a world would mean to them in which the rights of the child and the principles of development are respected.

Discovery of rights and creation of a Giant Globe

Using the A Fairer World education pack (available in French only), including a teacher’s guide, student sheets, and a wide choice of teaching and learning materials and various resources, schoolchildren discover their rights as well as the main issues linked to implementing them in their community and around the world. Afterwards, they take a photo of a right that is close to their hearts and this will be displayed on a Giant Globe (1.5 metre high) along with 5,000 other photos of students from different countries around the world.

The Giant Globe is « is an effective method of drawing attention to the fact that children have rights and of highlighting the importance of implementing these rights » remarked Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairman of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child at the Giant Globe exhibition at the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Thanks to the Virtual Globe, an electronic version of the Giant Globe, children can also access the world remotely, in dialogue with children in other countries, and continue to promote their rights.