The language of rights The UNCRC sets out all the rights that apply to everybody under the age of 18. These rights are interlinked equally important, and apply to everybody around the world. As an adult, teacher and parent, I am a duty bearer. I have a responsibility to ensure that you access and enjoy your rights.

Universal Indivisible Inalienable Unconditional Rights are indivisible, meaning no right is more important than another one. They are a whole package and they are interlinked. Rights are inalienable, meaning that you cannot give them away or sell them, and no one can take them from you. Rights are universal they are for all children, everywhere all the time. Rights are unconditional, meaning they are not a reward and not dependent on a responsibility or performing an action to get them. Unconditional

Duty bearers Rights- holders A Right is something that children and young people are entitled to, they do not have to be earned, and they belong to all children and young people from the time they are born.