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Photo: Kurdish girl. Iraq, 1997. Copyright Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas
Photo: Kurdish girl. Iraq, 1997. Copyright Sebastiao Salgado/Amazonas

 

Follow-up: Global Movement for Children

The Global Movement for Children (GMC) is a vital force for change, calling on people throughout the world to take action and protect the rights of children. We all have a role to play - leaders and citizens, public and private organizations, children and young people. What we demand of our leaders, we also demand of ourselves. The GMC calls on everyone, everywhere, to do as much as possible, in their own time and their own way, for and with children.

Early on, the GMC developed 10 key imperatives around which the highly successful Say Yes for Children campaign was built. The campaign culminated at the Special Session on Children when almost 95 million pledges were presented to the assembly, demonstrating people's readiness to get involved and take action for children.

With UNICEF, the NGO partners of the GMC are: Save the Children, World Vision International, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), NetAid, Plan International and CARE.

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Special Session home: World leaders 'Say Yes' for children
'A World Fit for Children'
Special Session highlights
Supporting events
Voices of the Special Session
Child and adolescent participation
NGO participation
Follow-up: CRC - A cornerstone
Follow-up: National Plans of Action
Follow-up: Global Movement for Children
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Background information