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Declaration of the Africa-Wide Movement for Children |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
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In 2006 more than 100 child focused organizations came together to discuss ways to foster and strengthen collaboration and joint action by establishing an Africa-wide movement for children. These organizations agreed that such a movement was long overdue and subsequently established a steering committee composed of eight organizations and networks operating in Africa to take the proposal forward and deliberate on the format that it should constitute. The Steering Committee, after lengthy deliberations and after looking into the various possibilities, called a second consultative meeting of child, youth and human rights organizations for 11 May 2008. In this meeting the Committee proposed for an Africa-wide Movement, with its possible objectives and structure that would serve as a tool to lobby for the betterment of the lives and living conditions of children. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 June 2008 )
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Roundtable Meeting on The Africa Child Policy Journal |
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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The Roundtable Meeting was convened to discuss the potential for a new journal dedicated to the issues of children in Africa. It is felt that an Africa journal would inform policy and practitioners and be a potentially powerful intervention that would contribute to the realization of child rights and wellbeing. Discussions focused around an assessment made by a leading and distinguished child rights expert to find out (a) the extent to which current journals publish peer-reviewed papers on children in Africa in general and policy issues in particular, and (b) whether scholars, researchers, editors and practitioners think that a peer-reviewed journal totally dedicated to children in Africa is needed, desirable, and feasible. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 June 2008 )
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