What Right Has a Child?
Director Elspeth MacDougall /
1969
This film explains the United Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a ten point charter passed in 1959.
The children discuss their concepts of the problems they face and paint their ideas on the right of a child to stay with its mother, to have adequate housing, freedom of religion and the rest of the rights stipulated by the Declaration.
Osiris Statuette, Cracow Festival of Short Films; Special Prize, 7th Int'l TV Festival, Prague.