The Right of the Child to Access Information and to Express Views Freely
The Right of the Child to Access Information and to Express Views Freely

Summary/Abstract: The Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989, and ratified by Poland on July 7, 1991 (Dz.U. 1991, No. 120, item 526), includes in its contents, among others, declarations of children’s rights to information and to express those views freely in all matters concerning them directly. In particular, the right to information includes more specific issues: the right to information on parentage (the knowledge of their parents); “the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of boundaries, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other medium of the child’s choice”; the right to receive relevant information, dependant on the age and understanding of children, which should give them the freedom to fully exercise their rights, unless this would be contrary to their welfare, and right to information about the educational process. However, the right to expression includes the right to speak in judicial and administrative proceedings, the right to freedom of expression, the right to freedom of thought, belief and religion, including its practice, the right to association and the right to assembly.

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