Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities:

Celebrating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Written by Lori DuPont, Joanne Foley, and Annette Gagliardi

Founders of the Circle for the Child Project

Edited and designed by Julie Penshorn, Co-Director, Growing Communities for Peace Published by University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center and the Stanley Foundation

Copyright ©
1999 Human Rights Resource Center, University of Minnesota

The Human Rights Education Series is published by the Human Rights Resource Center at the University of Minnesota and the Stanley Foundation. The series provides resources for the ever-growing body of educators and activists working to build a culture of human rights in the United States and throughout the world.

Raising Children with Roots, Rights, & Responsibilities: Celebrating the Convention on the Rights of the Child may be reproduced without permission for educational use only. No reproductions may be sold for profit. Excerpted or adapted material from this publication must include full citation of the source. To reproduce for any other purposes, a written request must be submitted to the Human Rights Resource Center.

The Human Rights Education Series is edited by Nancy Flowers. Edited and designed by Julie Penshorn, Co-Director of Growing Communities for Peace. Illustrations by eleven-year-old Margaret Anne Gagliardi. Cover design donated by Nancy Hope.

ISBN 0-9675334-1-3

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A contribution to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004