My Human Rights has been granted SEK 4.2 million by the General Inheritance Fund to digitize the material "I am a child. I have rights."
"We are so incredibly excited to finally be able to digitize our material about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It feels extra important now that it becomes law in Sweden. Over the past year, we have worked intensively to find funding to digitize the association's material. This has also been the association's goal since its inception in 2010", says Emma Wistrand and Annika Rehn Frobell, founders and presidents of the association respectively.
The target group for the digital knowledge platform is children and young people between 8-15 years of age and the profession mainly in schools, social services, healthcare, police and civil society.
"The development will take place agilely and in close cooperation with the target groups to find the best and most relevant solution. The platform is expected to be ready in 2022 and will then be completely free to download", says Carin Granlund Olsen, who is leading the project.
Educating children and adults in the CONVENTION is important because many children today lack deeper knowledge of their rights and thus the ability to assert them and act in the event of violations. But also because many adults who are around children also do not know about the Convention and understand their responsibility to ensure that it is complied with.
"It is clear that more educational materials are needed now that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is law. I notice that this is something that is currently requested by everyone who works with children", says Ragna Wallmark, Chairman of Save the Children Vaxholm and board member of My Human Rights.