The right of the child to freedom of expression 2014, para. 38
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- Many schools do not permit students to organize and express political or controversial views. The 1969 case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District is perhaps the first important case on the protection of children's freedom of expression. In December 1965, three school students (aged 13, 15 and 16) planned to wear black armbands with peace symbols to school in protest at the Vietnam War. When their local school administration heard of the planned protest, they banned armbands in school and suspended the students involved. The students appealed to the courts with support from the American Civil Liberties Union and their appeal was upheld, in 1969, by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2014), A/69/335, para. 38.
- Paragraph number
- 38
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