PARTICPATION: Children As Active Citizens

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This is a brochure presenting the main arguments for greater investments in children's civil rights and civic engagement, addressed to government decision makers, donors and development managers.

See also: Children as Active Citizens - A policy and programme guide

If you would like to receive hard copies of these documents, contact chongkolnee@unicef.org indicating the number of copies you would like to receive of each publication, and giving your mailing address.

The 'Children as Active Citizens' publications define children's citizenship; show how to operationalise children's civil rights; explain links between children's citizenship and development goals; clarify links between children's civil rights and their rights to survival, protection and development; define responsibilities of government and adults; define measurable results for children's civil rights and active citizenship; and identify indicators for measuring children's civil rights and citizenship.

Children as Active Citizens presents an agenda for the promotion of children’s civil rights and civic engagement, thus filling a gap in the operationalisation of children’s rights. This agenda can be taken forward by:

  • Promoting a common understanding of children’s citizenship, civil rights and civic engagement;
  • Defining programme-specific implications for children’s civil rights and civic engagement (for example in education, child protection, communication, health, emergencies);
  • Developing global, regional or country-specific agendas for children’s citizenship and civil rights;
  • Developing systems for monitoring children’s civil rights and civic engagement;
  • Advocating for wider respect, protection and fulfilment of children’s civil rights, for example on issues of complaints mechanisms for children, early marriage, justice for children, and children’s right to information.

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/childactive.pdf

Organisation: 
Inter-Agency Group on Child Participation
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/childactive.pdf

Countries

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