Do Children Have Rights? | Monty Lord | TEDxBolton
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Believe it or not, children in the UK now have more rights than adults. This is also improving all the time, with new children-focused legislation being further integrated into domestic law.
In fact, the UK compared to other countries, including the USA, actually provides some extensive children’s rights and these are embodied in law. This wasn’t always the case.
For many years, children were considered not to have their own rights. Instead, they were often seen as vulnerable and intimidated individuals and property of their parents or guardians. Their rights were considered as something subordinate to the overall needs and rights of their elders.
Over the centuries, this has resulted in children being placed at risk of significant harm or having their rights infringed upon, with little to no protection from the law. This has led to many years where people and the State have run roughshod over the rights of children, leading to what we now accept to be extensive abuse.
Rolling the clock forward to today’s world, children now share exactly the same human rights as adults and they also now have their own additional rights embodied in both international and domestic law. However, even with this being the case, there are still times when children’s rights are being ignored. When this happens, governments and official bodies are supposed to intervene to look after the rights of children and make them aware of those right. Sadly, this doesn’t always happen.
Over the last few years, more and more children are becoming activists and agents for positive change in society, with the likes of environmental activist Greta Thunberg and Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, leading the way. This has brought about a slow increase in awareness of children’s rights, with children seeking to get their voices heard and finding new ways to participate in the main decision-making processes that will influence their future.
Prior to creating his short-documentary, Monty surveyed 1,892 children and used their responses to inform his research. The results indicated that very few children are actually aware that these laws exist to protect their children’s rights or how to go about asserting their rights through the courts.
In this TEDx talk, Monty aims to answer the question, 'Do Children Have Rights?' Monty Lord is a 17-year-old, multi award-winning change maker, social entrepreneur and researcher dedicated to challenging injustices through the use of law.
As a best-selling author and a world memory champion, Monty is also the youngest in the UK with the most world records, holding 5 Guinness World Records for world memory challenges.
He engaged thousands of children in the UK with his ground-breaking research and was recognised with the Prime Minister’s Points of Lights Award, the Diana Award & the British Citizen Youth Award for services to the community & charity.
The national media has reported upon many of Monty's projects over the last few years, with widespread coverage on BBC & ITV News, radio and both broadsheet & tabloid newspapers. He was named in The Independent newspaper (The Happy List 20/21) as in the top 50 inspirational people driving positive change in Britain.
Between 2021 and 2022, Monty Lord took high-profile legal action against a large national youth organisation on behalf of multiple child victims who all alleged bullying and abuse with elements of homophobic behaviour.
Monty launched a national initiative under the brand Young Legal Eagles® to promote the rights, views and interests of children and young people (CYP), with the knowledge that everyone should know and understand their legal rights and obligations and know how to gain redress through the legal system.
In August 2022, Monty attended 10 Downing Street and spoke with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Children's Commissioner about his latest children's rights initiative.
Monty created the short-documentary 'Do Children Have Rights?' for broadcast on Amazon Fire TV and Roku in 2022. It’s a new documentary film that blows the lid on the world of children's rights in the UK. The purpose of the documentary is to raise awareness of children's rights. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Childrens rights are like that really expensive Christmas present your parents tell you they'll get you if you're really good every year but never actually give you regardless of what you do
being "good' by their made up criteria.
This is incredible Monty Lord and @TED talks . Keep it up!
Watched this guy speaking at Amnesty last December. Inspirational.
Thank you for the information to help me in what i love to do for a living
The information is very informative and appropriate. Thanks for sharing.
what to do about the corruption of child protection workers who, very often, work outside their legislated actions to make financial gain for their office... eg: more children taken into care results in more gov. funding ... courts that decide a child's fate are administered by/through child protection departments
Thank you. Mandatory watching for student social workers
A Helpful video, thank you so much for it.
My school used this for the PSHE lesson
How can we get further info about this for our school projects?
great job.
This is very informative
Really nice
I want to learn about the childrens rights please help me
This is adorable
Can I have the link to these laws?
❤ it.
Could you make a video on rights of children on incarcerated children...
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What about Planetary Rights, what rights do the planet have?
Guys please. It’s not like everyone follows the laws. Of course there is going to be discrimination, but if caught they are punished, okay?
We are deliberately complicating the definition of human rights. Because the person who has the money has to take more. The solution is simple. You have to guarantee your house, food, and clothes. But there is no country that does that.
I give it a like 🙂 nice
Education is business. Hundreds of children haven't Schools.
Parents have legal custody til kate teen years. In America they feel they as parents can do whatvever they want even exspose them in videos for world to see. The child has no say in most times. Need true adults who have decernment.
Why would you troll this account?
Human rights are effectively upheld? Almost none of the things claimed to be human rights are actually available to all people in the countries that have signed this.
and yet they are called "Human Rights" countries are supposed to serve people not the other way around
Please, tell us more about how amazing you are, mister self-published author of children's books and payer of fees to be featured in Guinness world records.
I think you'll find that Monty has actually furthered the awareness of children's rights quite drastically in the past few years. He's the Rosa parks of childrens rights, are you the Rosa parks of anything? No didn't think so, expect maybe stupidity.