OP-ED: Children have the right to protest: South African legal activists make submissions to United Nations

Unlike adult citizens of South Africa who will be eligible to vote in the elections on 8 May, children cannot vote. This critical avenue by which to exercise their political power and express a political view is closed to them. This is why the ability to assemble and demonstrate is an important way in which children participate in the political life of society.

In South Africa and across the world, child activists use peaceful assembly as a way to raise their voices on issues that particularly affect them. For example, over the last decade, high school members of Equal Education have used marches, pickets and other public demonstrations to bring attention to problems in the South African education system. On Friday, 15 March 2019, children across the world held public demonstrations against climate change under the #GlobalClimateStrike initiative.

The EELC will also urge the UNHCR to emphasise that governments have a duty not to limit or interfere with the right in any way and that governments be reminded of their obligation to consider the needs of children in developing laws or policies to regulate the right to peaceful assembly.

Then children should have the right to have sex, get married, drink, smoke, have alchohol, drive, vote, sign legal documents. Surely?

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