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Article 2: All children have trhe same rights.
Article 2 says all children have the rights set out in the UNCRC, and individual children and young people shouldn’t be discriminated against when these rights are realised. This covers both direct and indirect discrimination.
What is Direct and Indirect Discrimination?
Direct discrimination happens when a person is treated differently because of the way they are.
For example, it happens if someone doesn’t get a job because of their disability or isn’t treated equally because of their race.
Indirect discrimination happens when something applies to everyone in the same way but affects some people unfairly.
For example, if everyone had to climb up a flight of stairs to get to an after school club, this would discriminate against children who couldn’t do that because of disability.
Non-discrimination is a general principle:
Non-discrimination is one of the four general principles of the UNCRC, which underpin how it should be interpreted and put into practice.
The four principles are:
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