Children's rights in Wiesbaden
For over 20 years, the City of Wiesbaden has been ensuring that children's rights are made known, respected and accepted.
Children's rights in Wiesbaden
As early as 1999, the Wiesbaden Office for Social Work, together with the German Child Protection Association (Deutscher Kinderschutzbund), began to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This states that children and young people have 54 rights to protection, support and participation.
On June 1, 2000, representatives of the city council signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They committed themselves to ensuring that this is made known, accepted and complied with in Wiesbaden.
Every year around September 20, Wiesbaden celebrates the Children's and Family Festival on World Children's Day. The focus is on children's rights. There are monuments and squares at various locations in the city that make children's rights visible.
Children's rights = youth rights
In November 1989, 190 countries signed the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child). In 1992, the Federal Republic of Germany also committed itself to implementing and publicizing children's rights.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child contains precise regulations for governments on how they should behave in order to protect children and young people from exploitation and injustice. The 54 articles describe the special protection, promotion and participation rights of children.
By anchoring children's rights in the Hessian state constitution in October 2018, the position of children in the Hessian legal system was strengthened and a clear signal for more child-friendliness in Hesse was sent.