Living Rights

The Netherlands 2004 • 88 mins • Director: Duco Tellegen • Subtitled

Presented by Amnesty International

Content may disturb

Living Rights is a compendium of self-contained personal stories from around the world about diverse children, each at the cusp of a pivotal turning point in their young lives. From a boy with Asperger’s syndrome forced to live in a home for the mentally disabled, to arranged marriages and the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, Living Rights is both beautiful and harrowing.

The film examines the contemporary relevance - and often divergence - between the humanitarian statement crafted by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that sought to define and uphold the fundamental living rights of children, and the reality of the lives of these children whom the charter seeks to protect.

A twenty minute speakers' panel follows every screening:

• Auckland Speaker Panels

• Wellington Speaker Panels

• Christchuch Speaker Panels