Chartering the course
Photograph By Keith Anderson/The Daily News They're only words on paper, the two charters of rights that Kamloops kids have created. It's just a feel-good exercise, right? Far from it, says Val Janz of Make Children First. Her organization spearheaded the effort to get 900 kids involved in creating a charter for children and another for youth, based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child listing 12 rights. That convention was adopted by the UN in 1989 and has since been ratified by about 200 countries. Now kids in Kamloops have come up with their own t...
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