At the heart of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the core values that policies be made, structures and processes be established and actions be taken that are, always and invariably, in the best interests of the child. There are many thousands of people around the world who have worked to support that principle. The names that follow are but a few of those people. Indentified by UNICEF offices, the list includes a broad cross-section of advocates for children - community workers, medical personnel, grass-roots organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), religious leaders, writers, journalists, educators, lawyers, government officials and others. We print their names to acknowledge their contributions and also to indirectly acknowledge the many, many thousands more whose names we may never know but whose work on behalf of children continues to move us all towards a more just world.
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AFGHANISTAN
Co-operation Centre for Afghanistan
NGO that promotes human rights and reports on human rights abuses. |
LEBANON
Nayla Moawad
President, Parliamentary Committee on the Rights of the Child, and René Moawad Foundation |
ARGENTINA
Estela B. de Carlotto
President, Asociación de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo |
MALAYSIA
Raj Binte Abdul Karim
Director-General, National Population and Family Development Board |
AUSTRALIA
Justice Marcus Einfeld
Special Representative for UNICEF Australia |
MALI
Général Amadou Toumani Touré
Founder, Fondation pour l'enfance |
AUSTRIA
Prof. Clemens von Pirquet, M.D. (1874-1929)
Secretary-General, International Union for Youth Welfare to the League of Nations |
MEXICO
Libertad Hernandez (1947-1998)
Director, women's programme in Veracruz |
AZERBAIJAN
Hadi Recebli
Head, Social Legislation Department, National Assembly |
MOZAMBIQUE
Graça Machel
United Nations Secretary-General's expert on children in armed conflict |
BENIN
Monsignor Isidore de Souza (1934-1999)
Archbishop of Cotonou, founding member and honorary President, Institute of Human Rights and Promotion of Democracy of Benin |
NEPAL
Gauri Pradhan
Founder, Child Workers in Nepal |
BOLIVIA
Ana María Romero de Campero
Journalist and Bolivia's current People's Defender |
NIGERIA
Irene Thomas, M.D.
President, Inter-African Committee on Female Genital Mutilation |
BRAZIL
Herbert de Souza (Betinho) (1935-1997)
Involved in the design and launch of the coalition, Pact for Children |
PAKISTAN
Hakim Mohammed Said (1920-1998)
Established various institutions for children |
BULGARIA
Elena Kostova
President, Future of Bulgaria Foundation |
PANAMA
Dora Boyd de Pérez Balladares
Founder, Pacto por la Niñez Panameña |
CAMBODIA
Mom Thany
Affiliated with the NGO Redd Barna, built an NGO network in Cambodia |
PHILIPPINES
Feny de los Angeles-Bautista
Executive Director, Philippine Children's Television Foundation |
CANADA
Denise Avard
Former Executive Director, Canadian Institute of Child Health |
POLAND
Prof. Adam Lopatka
President, Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child |
COLOMBIA
Children's Movement for Peace
Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize |
ROMANIA
Dragos Serafim, M.D.
President, Romanian Association for Child Rights |
CONGO
Thérèse Françoise Engambé
Chief, Projet Plaidoyer pour l'application de la Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant |
SENEGAL
Doudou Camara (1941-1998)
Author of Approche culturelle pour la promotion des droits de l'enfant and Droits de l'enfant: Contes et légendes du Sénégal |
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Emery Mpwate Munfe
President, Union de la Jeunesse protestante, National Director, Church of Christ Youth |
SINGAPORE
Lim Eng Seng
Director, Rehabilitation and Protection Division, Ministry of Community Development |
DENMARK
Peter Sabroe (1867-1913)
Member of Parliament, journalist and editor |
SOMALIA
Elman Ali Ahmed (1954-1996)
Founder, Elman School in Mogadishu |
EGYPT
Justice Mohammed Abdel Aziz ElGuindy
Former Attorney-General of Egypt, Co-organizer, Alexandria International Conference on the CRC, 1988 |
SOUTH AFRICA
Nelson Mandela
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Founder, Nelson Mandela Children's Fund |
FIJI
Justice Nazhat Shameem
Former Chair of Fiji's Children's Coordinating Committee |
SRI LANKA
Prof. Savitri Goonesekere
Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo |
GAMBIA
Amie Joof Cole
Secretary-General, West African Women's Association |
SWEDEN
Thomas Hammarberg
United Nation's Secretary-General's Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia |
GERMANY
Reinald Eichholz
First ombudsperson for children for the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia |
SYRIA
Hussein Hassun
Minister of Justice, active in juvenile law and justice |
GREECE
Antonis Samarakis
Writer, UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador |
THAILAND
Anand Panyarachun
UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador |
GUINEA
Hadja Mariama Diabate
The 'national mother' for orphaned, abandoned and underprivileged children |
UKRAINE
Natalia Petrova
Head, All-Ukrainian Committee on Children's Rights Protection (NGO) |
INDIA
Tara Ali Baig (1916-1989)
Social reformer, writer, first Asian woman President of the International Union for Child Welfare in Geneva |
UNITED KINGDOM
Nigel Cantwell
Coordinator of the NGOs that participated in drafting the CRC |
INDONESIA
Nafsiah Mboi, M.D.
Secretary-General, National Commission for the Protection of Children (NGO) |
UNITED STATES
James P. Grant
Executive Director, UNICEF |
JAMAICA
Marjorie Taylor
Special Envoy for Children, former Minister of State for Children's Issues |
VENEZUELA
Comité Juntos por una Nueva Ley
Coalition of NGOs that promote child rights |
JAPAN
Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960)
Member, National Council on Child Welfare, inspired government and social action to promote child rights |
YEMEN
Nageeba M. Haddad
'Director-General of children's culture', Ministry of Culture, writer |
KENYA
Justice Effie Owuor
Chair, Task Force on child law reform, UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador. |
ZIMBABWE
Jarios Jiri (1921-1982)
Founder, Jarios Jiri Association for Disabled Children |
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