HUMAN RIGHTS MODULE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL Article 5 Governments shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents and members of the extended family to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance. Article 6 Every child has the inherent right to life and governments shall ensure the development of the child. Article 7 Every child shall have the right to a name and nationality. Article 8 Governments must undertake to preserve the child’s identity, including nationality and family relations. Article 9 Children have the right to live with their parents unless separation is in their best interests. Article 10 Children and their parents who live apart have the right to move between those countries for the purpose of reunification or remaining in contact. Article 11 Governments have the obligation to prevent and remedy abduction or confinement of children out of the country by a parent or third party. Article 12 Every child has the right to express his or her views freely in all matters affecting him/her. Article 13 The child shall have the right to freedom of expression, to receive and impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers. Article 14 Governments shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, subject to appropriate guidance from the parents. Article 15 Every child has the right to freedom of association and to join an association. Article 16 Every child has the right to protection from interference with his/her privacy, family, home, correspondence and reputation. Article 17 Governments shall ensure that the child has access to information and material from a diversity of sources, encourage the mass media to disseminate information and material 143

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