I'm a teenager, what happened to my rights?...

'I' m a teenager, what happened to my rights?' is Plan's report launched exactly 15 years since children's rights were enshrined in international law in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

On 20 November 1989, the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child promised to guarantee fundamental human rights for the world's children. Yet many who have grown up within its lifetime know little or nothing of what it is to have the protection and freedoms enlisted within its 54 articles.

The report focuses on the issues affecting young people today including sexual exploitation, child labour, crime and punishment, HIV/AIDs, early marriage and motherhood.

The report advocates for teenagers to be listened to: they are grown-up enough to have a say over their own destiny. The report highlights examples of teenagers taking matters into their own hands to realise their rights and achieve lasting changes.