Say Yes, Spring 2003: Leave No Child Out
Leave No Child Out -- and that means every child is included!
Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2003
The Regional Network for Children (RNC) is a group of organisations in transition countries dedicated to promoting and protecting the rights of children. Established in Sarajevo in June 2002 with a small secretariat in Bucharest, it is one of nine Regional Networks under the umbrella of the new NGO/UNICEF Global Forum which promotes children’s rights and welfare. The RNC aims to show that the time has come to move forward from pledges and commitments and to improve children’s lives with direct actions and effective social change.
The most developed of the Global Forum networks, with Georgia as President and Turkey as Vice-President, the RNC is also a member of the Global Movement for Children (GMFC) which itself was formed to facilitate citizen action and to obtain the commitment of key actors in all sectors of society to make a real difference in the fulfilment of children’s rights
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To promote this, the RNC will launch the Leave No Child Out campaign in June.
The Regional Network for Children logo: a vibrant call to take positive action and include every child now!
Artwork © RNC 2003
Leave No Child Out -- Because every girl and boy is born free and equal in dignity and rights: all forms of discrimination and exclusion against children must end
is the full text of the action which drives the RNC campaign. It will underscore the principle enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that all children have equal rights and that no child should be discriminated or excluded from opportunities, services, protection or participation.
The campaign will highlight the situation of:
- children of ethnic, racial or religious minorities;
- children belonging to impoverished families;
- children who are disabled or who have special needs;
- children without parental care or those displaced by armed conflict (internally displaced peoples and refugees);
- girls discriminated against because of their gender, and
- children and young people living with HIV/AIDS;
Poster for the Regional Network for Children’s Leave No Child Out campaign. © RNC 2003
While focusing on the grave situation of millions of children in the CEE/CIS region, the campaign will also emphasise solutions, pointing to policies, laws, budgets and programmes that can improve the situation of children facing social exclusion. It will promote the values of tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflict and of solidarity and participation in democratic societies.
UNICEF Executive Director, Carol Bellamy will launch Leave No Child Out in İstanbul this coming June at a ceremony attended by national and internationally based NGOs, Government officials, UNICEF Regional staff and other UN agencies. Leave No Child Out will run for a year until June 2004.
Read how Say Yes for Children really took off in Turkey in the February 2002 issue of Say Yes.
Read all ten actions of Say Yes for Children.
For more information about the Leave No Child Out campaign in Turkey, contact Sema Hosta at UNICEF Turkey.
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