It's Your Right: Emily (14) on Children's Rights

Emily, aged 14, is part of the Galway Community Circus. She talks about what she thinks children's rights should be, and how being a part of the Galway Community Circus, helps her and her teammates to exercise their right to play and friendship.

For more information on Children's Rights and the 'Its Your Right' campaign, visit the Its Your Right website:

http://itsyourright.ie/

Text Transcript Below

Emily: I’m Emily. I’m 14 and I’m a member of the Galway Community Circus.

I think my rights are that I have the right to an education, the right to food and water and shelter, the right to have a family. Emily: Like, no child should be treated unfairly no matter what. Like, every child is equal. They should all have the equal, like, school because it’s not fair if one child who is maybe disabled should not have the chance to learn as any other child. Emily: Well, in the Circus we do a lot of team building which lets us play while making friends while making friends and like making stronger bonds with people. And then we also do a lot of skills, but we can play with the skills, as in like, to make new things, like, performances or whatever using the material that we’ve learnt so we can have fun and make friends and play, you know.