A Fairer World

Children Commit to a World Where Their Rights are Respected

By participating in the A Better World project, children become advocates for their rights, creatively expressing what a world where children’s rights and the principles of sustainable development are respected would mean to them.

Discovering Rights and Creating a Giant Globe

Using the A Better World educational kit, which includes a teacher’s guide, student worksheets, and a wide range of educational and teaching materials and resources, schoolchildren learn about their rights and the main challenges to implementing them in their communities and around the world. They then take a photo of a right that is important to them, which will be displayed on a Giant Globe (1.5 meters high) along with 5,000 other photos taken by students from around the world.

The Giant Globe is “an effective way to draw attention to the fact that children have rights and to promote the importance of implementing those rights,” said Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, during the exhibition of the Giant Globe at the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Thanks to the Virtual Globe, an electronic version of the Giant Globe, children also have the opportunity to access it remotely, interact with children from other countries, and continue to promote their rights.