Events at the Preparatory Committee
 "Participation
is not just about being listened to ...."
"The right to participate is not a favour that we are requesting,
it is our right," 16-year-old Nicole Bidegain from Uruguay
said at a packed roundtable
meeting at UNICEF House.
A world apart, but similar concerns
At a workshop
on the Global Movement for Children on Tuesday, some participants
found out that issues of primary concern in their own backyards
were strikingly similar to those of others from half a world away.
Promoting and protecting the rights of
street children
Kenyan children living on the streets are almost inevitably
drawn into a spiral downwards towards criminalization, a participant
said on Wednesday during discussions
organized by the Consortium for Street Children.
Mongolia excited about Global Movement
for Children
Manduul Altangerel, 15, and Khanyai Buyannemekh, 17,
will spend almost as much time travelling to and from New York as
they will spend here participating
in the week-long third Preparatory Committee meeting for the
United Nations Special Session on Children.
 Web
debate
From 9 to 10am, youth from 17 countries join Carol Bellamy,
UNICEF Executive Director, and the Honourable Landon Pearson, Adviser
on Children's Rights of the Canadian Senate online
in a web debate which will span topics such as HIV/AIDS, girls'
rights and media representations of young people among others.
 Video
conference: Technology brings more voices to New York
Even the best laid plans have hitches sometimes but, fortunately,
having one country offline didn't prevent PLAN International's interactive
video conference on the rights of the child from bringing the
voices of children to New York.
Youth journalists polish their skills
Young journalists
were today told that they were professionals and their work should
not betray their age.
Advocates plan to get girls back in the
Outcome Document
New York, June 14 - For anyone who has been involved
in one, the advocacy meeting
for girls' issues on Thursday recalled the behind-the-scenes
strategizing of a political campaign.
Truth, reconciliation and reintegration
in Sierra Leone
The Caucus on Children Affected by Armed Conflict discussed the
work being done on how
to integrate children into the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC) planned for Sierra Leone.
Volunteering empowers youth and builds
communities
The session highlighted the benefits that both the recipients and
volunteers get from youth
volunteerism.
Listen to us, don't just hear us, insist
youth
It's not difficult to listen to children. You just have
to stop talking. That was the advice of a participant at an Action
Aid session entitled How to
Make Young People's Voices Heard.
Girls learn to stand up for themselves
New York, June 15 - Dozens of girls aged under-18 benefited
from an interactive
workshop on Friday designed to help them be more savvy as both
consumers and producers of media.
Making the Global Movement for Children
come alive
New York, 15 June - Representatives of all ages and from all continents
transformed the sedate Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium into a
place of celebration on Friday to discuss how the Global Movement
for Children (GMC) and the Say Yes for Children campaign could be
expanded and improved.
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