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Abstract
All children all over the world have their rights no matter who their parents are, in which country they were born, where they live, what skin color as well as physical properties they have, what their religion is, what their gender is, whether they have disabilities, what their wealthiness is, what their parents’ beliefs are etc. According to UNICEF it is not permitted any child to be treated unjustly and illegally for any purpose. The present study investigates Greek students’ attitude toward Child rights. The original Attitude toward Child Rights Scale of a five-point Likert scale of Selma Yel and Tuğba Dönmez (2021) was used to evaluate the students’ attitudes. 225 Greek students filled the scale in a google form. The results demonstrated that Greek students’ perceptions reveal among others, their opinion that all children should take advantage of the right to a healthy life equally and their awareness that there are children in the world who are not able to take advantage of their rights and their willingness to do their best to protect the rights of my friends who are subjected to injustice. 1.Theoretical Framework Every individual in every life stage, from infancy through childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood to old age has rights. The childhood stage is the most significant in relation to the rights of a child developed and protected by the law (Kiral, 2019). Children is ought to be cared for their opportunity to flourish and developed while the state have to reassure their survival and protect their rights from any physical, emotional and sexual abused. Physical health related, nutrition (food and water), healthy weight and access to vaccination and safety are the basis of a child development and blooming. In addition, emotional health related to mental health is important and promotes behavior related to positive relationships with peers, teachers, parents as well as adults’ creation and social competence strongly connected with school achievement. Such as those of a different race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or economic background Equality, respect (reception of individuals of different race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic background and religion) and dignity are considered fundamentals justices connected with children rights (Gallitto et al., 2019). According to UNICEF there are four principals of the Convention on the rights of the child. 1. Non- Discrimination, 2. Best interests of the Child, 3.