The Organisation of African Unity prepared an ‘African Common Position’ as a contribution to the UN Special Session on Children, which was held in New York in May 2002. The aim of the Special Session was to: (1) to review progress made for children since 1990 specifically by returning to the goals of the World Summit for Children, and (2) to make a renewed commitment to children and develop a new global agenda for the coming decade. A follow-up to the Special Session will be held in New York in December. Prior to this ‘high-level commemorative event’, the African Union will hold a mid-term review to look at how the African Common Position is being implemented five years after its adoption. The review will include country reports based on a questionnaire sent to Member States of the African Union. The African Union Commission prepared the questionnaire with input from the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The questionnaire will also lay the ground for drafting a State of Africa’s Children report. Key documents
AFRICA: Second Pan-African Forum on the Africa Common Position for Children
African Movement of Working Children and Youth: Africa NGO comments on: Pan-African Forum for Children, Africa Fit of Children
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