Schools: Student Quotes 2005/2006

I think it's really important because we get to know that the other girls and boys are not that different from us, that they have the same feelings as we do.

When we grow up, we need to learn, we need to be able to talk about these matters. We need to learn about the different conflicts in these areas. With this project, you see their emotions and feelings about the situation.

On the News, it's just a group of people and you can't put names to faces. But with actual children, you know who you are talking to, and you understand more about what it is like for them because you hear their stories. It's personal.

It helps them to know that someone else cares in other countries, that they're not just fighting among each other without an outcome (an end). They need to know that other people care: this can help them

It lessens the conflict if the other side thinks that we're trying to help and to understand them as well as the people that we are more connected to.

All we see on the News is the blood and violence, and just what the News wants for an interesting story. But what we see from the students who are our age is the truth – it's much deeper than what the News is just saying.

I think it's important to hear their views and not the politicians' views.

They're supposed to have meaning, but sometimes in a conflict situation the meaning is lost and people forget them before they take actions.

When you have all the rights all the time, you don't realise how important they are.

Every child has the right to a correct standard of living because they should have their own space to have a normal life and not have their life and friendship interfered with.

Every child has the right to an education b ecause your education as a child will determine how you grow up as an adult, your ability to change the next generation, your ability to change things in Israel and Palestine.

We can help each other to help ourselves.

I think they're really just words when they are just written down. You need everyone to take them on board and to make it work. If they are just on a piece of paper, then what is a piece of paper to someone who doesn't believe in them? You need to get people to understand and to want them – not just to read them and say 'Oh, it's unrealistic'.

Every child has a right to education: you need to develop personally, and mentally, education helps it along...to take on board the opinions of different people. It helps you grow.

Every child has the right to rest and play: if you are deprived of your childhood, you are only going to become more bitter, with hatred towards the fact that you didn't get to do what everyone else did.

Without rights, you don't have freedom: freedom is made up of the basic rights

Basically, it's important to do this project so that we can hear from young people of our own age, instead of hearing it from the media who might just pick what they consider to be good for their ratings.

Every child has the right to protection from violence: I think this is important because no child should be abused or put in violent situations. They should be allowed to do what kids do and go out and play on the streets.