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Your rights
If you ever see a doctor, counsellor, physio or another health provider, you are a health consumer. And as a health consumer you have rights. This page explains what your rights are, and how to make a complaint if you don't believe you have been treated right. Youth Law also has a page outlining your rights as a health consumer.
You also have human rights that everyone should respect, no matter who they are or what their relationship to you is. Youth Law has information about your rights at home, school, and work, when dealing with the police, relationships and more.
HealthInfo recommends the following pages
- United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
A plain English summary of the world's largest children's rights document.
- Children's Commissioner – Your rights
Children's rights cover things like what children and young people should and should not be allowed to do, how they should be treated, how they should be protected, and whose role is it to protect them.
Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Updated March 2016.
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