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Monday, September 23, 2024

I want to voice our challenges and dreams at the UN

Emmanuella shares her experience at the UN General Assembly, advocating for children's rights and urging global leaders to include youth voices in decision-making.

Emmanuella

I want to voice our challenges and dreams at the UN

Emmanuella shares her experience at the UN General Assembly, advocating for children's rights and urging global leaders to include youth voices in decision...

Peru

Let's Make Social Justice a Reality

Groups of children are denied equal access to education, health and other essential aspects of life; these children and adolescents are being deprived of...

Ethiopia

Displacement is a terrible experience

While we celebrate World Social Justice Day, I call on everyone to help children stay with their families in the places they choose.

Jason

When children and young people participate, it is possible to make a change

The World Social Justice Day has been established to promote equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities for all. Jason, a young leader...

Carlos

Our child-led research makes child activists’ voices stronger in Brazil

As we observe World Social Justice Day 2024, Carlos- a young leader from Brazil- shares this article to call for equal opportunities for all groups in...

Children and young people from Brazil exchange experiences on the Digital Accelerator projec

Practical and straightforward steps for our digital safety

International Safer Internet Day

Genoveva

Making our voices heard through the ENOUGH campaign

Hunger is a real problem and I have witnessed it with my own eyes and ears.

Lukman at the SDG meeting in New York

"I believe it is possible to build a hunger-free world"

Campaining to end child hunger

Emmanuela speaks at the lauch of the ENOUGH campaign

We are saying ENOUGH

Child hunger and malnutrition

Child activism in Peru

Somos lideresas de nuestro propio presente y futuro

Día Internacional de las Niñas

Mariama, young leader from Sierra Leone, participates in a community activity

Celebrating empowered girls who stand up for themselves

International Day of the Girl Child

Jimena, Young Leader from Peru, speaks at national television

We are leaders of our own present and future

International Day of the Girl Child

Children MJPOP project

A model to enhance children and young people’s participation

This article discusses the different factors contributing to children's and young people's identities, such as age, gender or race, and how these intersect...

Hands

Investing in child activism

Learning from children and young people’s actions to stop child marriage

Children from different regions

Challenging the homogenous view of childhood

Children lived experiences are often shaped by discrimination, prejudice, racism and patriarchal beliefs

Mobilising to prevent child marriages from happening

Children have often found it difficult to realise their participation rights. The notable exception is through "child activism", where children take action...

Child-led research for social change

Patricio Cuevas-Parra, Director, Child Participation and Rights, World Vision, discusses g rowing evidence suggest that child-led research provides...

Child activism to end child marriage

Kay Tisdall from the University of Edinburgh and Patricio Cuevas-Parra from World Vision look to what can be learned conceptually and practically from...

child labour

Child labour, one of the most prevalent forms of violating children’s rights

By Tejan, 17, Young Leader, Sierra Leone. I would like to give a brief insight into child labour as it’s not new to us. So, in simple words, child labour...

child labour

We want to study and play more, not work

By Milagros, aged 16, Young Leader, Peru. I am convinced that child labour is an issue few people tolerate. Despite that, there are many different opinions...

Harriet – a young leader addressing high-level stakeholders at the European Humanitarian Forum 2022 in Brussels

Harriet is a 16-year-old young leader from South Sudan, who currently resides in the Bidi Bidi settlement in Uganda. During the March 2022 European...

Alamgir is assisting the next generation of young leaders in Bangladesh

Meet Alamgir: The Bangladesh child rights activist

Alamgir never really had a childhood. The 21-year-old child rights activist in Bangladesh wants to make sure that no other child suffers that same fate...

CP session

Joyce and Joseph advocate for their rights

Lebanon is enduring a severe economic crisis– Inflation reached triple digits while the exchange rate for the Lebanese pound keeps losing value, prompting...

Intergenerational Panel: Shaping the global debate

Dola, aged 16, from Bangladesh and Jason, aged 16, from Congo, talks with Najat Maalla M'jid, UN SRSG-VAC, Daniela Buzducea, WVI, and Philip Jaffé, UNCRC...