- Well-being is a fundamental right for children
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (20 November 1989), Article 17, re-quires the signatory states to protect the “social, spiritual and moral well-being and physical and mental health“ of all children on their territories....
- Academic performance
Recent research supports the assumption that children and young people enjoy a wide range of both social and academic benefits when they regularly engage in developmentally appropriate physical activity...
- Physical literacy and democratic citizenship
We take the view that physical activity is to the body what reading is to the mind. It follows that individuals have the fundamental right not only to become literate in reading and writing but also physically literate....
- Physical Activity in schools
Among the factors responsible for providing these opportunities, schools have the greatest potential to influence the physical activity behaviors of their students through various ways....
