Advocacy organizations here in Germany are calling on the government to give children's rights constitutional protection - Je 20.09.2007 14

Kids can be loud - and complaints about too much noise coming from playgrounds, for instance, are common. Should such complaints reach the courts, it's often the children who lose the case. It's just one point that could change if children's rights are incorporated into Germany's basic law. Children know why politicians should listen to them. +++VOXPOPS Kinder+++ - girl - "So more things will be built for children and so there'll be less violence against children." - boy - "Politicians don't talk about kids enough because in politics grown-ups always come first." Experts have long called for bolstering the rights of children in the constitution. They say it's particularly important that a child has the legal right to grow up without violence, in the home or outside of it. And children should have the right to an education.