The Right to Survival - to life, health, nutrition, name and nationality.

Survival Rights secure a minimum requirement for a child to adequately survive in this world.

It is unfortunate that children are born without a guideline manual as a gift for their parents to help strengthen parental instincts, so that the child's basic needs can be fully met.

The task of insuring these minimal standards falls upon the State, social workers and NGOs all across the globe including Childline Thailand Foundation. Equipped with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) as their Bible these professionals are working towards bringing up the child rearing standards around the world.

The first and foremost of all survival rights is the Right to Life. It is outlined in the article 6 of the UN CRC which states that every child has the inherent right to life and that State should insure the child's survival and development.

Article 9 of the UN CRC states that every child has the right to live with his/her parents, unless it is deemed to be incompatible with the child's best interests. The family is the most important first encounter with the world for a child. It is also the most important environment for the child's development. It is within the family that a child acquires his/her values, perception of the world and of oneself. The family is the greatest influence as it is the first human beings with whom the child has any interaction. A child's healthy or unhealthy future development is determined to a large extent by his/hers early family.

All children have the right to a decent standard of living adequate to his/hers overall development. This includes standards for medical care, nutrition and social security.

The child's Right to Survival still remains a humanitarian challenge even in the twenty first century. This challenge constantly moves Childline Thailand to relentlessly work in collaboration with Government agencies and NGOs alike to ensure these basic survival rights for all children in Thailand including children of ethnic minorities, migrant groups and poverty stricken communities.