By: Caro MWOLOLO
Despite vowing to take children’s rights issues seriously during their campaigns, most political parties have frequently violated those rights.
Almost all political parties misuse children’s data or use recordings from kindergartens or schools, children in photos and videos who are unaware of being filmed.
Take this seriously: children are not campaign tools. A child is not a decoration, but a person under the age of 18 who has rights.
Politicians needn’t dance, recite poems or cut ribbons with them, but rather ask their opinion on questions that concern them. When a child is used instead of involved, he/she is not respected as a person.
It is an important goal of the guideline to support the self-regulatory process of political parties: to ensure the observance of children’s rights, political actors should assume responsibility for their actions and establish an internal set of rules for the involvement of children in political campaigns.
Understanding and raising awareness of these minimum standards is also important for voters to identify the political players who actually take children’s rights and interests seriously.
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