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Children and Youth

Children are adults in construction and they deserve special attention. Childhood is a crucial moment and all stakeholders have to ensure that the fundamental rights enclosed in the Convention on the Rights of the Child are fulfilled for all children in the world. These rights range from the simple recognition of their existence through birth registration to their education and protection.

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Child labour - Child soldiers - Children rights - Youth employment - Youth engagement

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  • The World's Largest Lesson on the home stretch

    Monica Dimitriu posted Information | 19 August 2015
    Less than six weeks are left until the Global Goals for sustainable Development are launched at the United Nations. To celebrate this, the World’s Largest Lesson will take place in schools around the world. To prepare, a toolkit has been launched. The toolkit, available on www.wlltoolkit.org...
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  • Empowering Today’s Youth – Part 2: Edgleison, Edgars and Maruba

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Information | 3 August 2015
    “The European Commission should continue investing in youth participation because we [youth] would like to be involved in spaces like forums, boards, in networks so that we can say what we want for our communities; so that we can be part of decision-making; and so that we can say to the...
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  • Youth Working Towards a Happier, Healthier, Safer World

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 27 July 2015
    “Sustainable development policies cannot be fully achieved without youth angles, perspectives and voices,” said Sana Afouaiz, a women’s advocate and blogger from Morocco. She believes that young people today should have the opportunity to participate in the political dialogue; it is their future...
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  • Empowering Today’s Youth – Part 2: Edgleison, Edgars and Maruba

    Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 24 July 2015
    “The European Commission should continue investing in youth participation because we [youth] would like to be involved in spaces like forums, boards, in networks so that we can say what we want for our communities; so that we can be part of decision-making; and so that we can say to the...
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  • Empowering Today’s Youth – Part 1: Stephen and Olga

    Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 24 July 2015
    “We need to look towards the youth to [carry out development projects], we need to educate the youth on how they can get involved. Because in 15 years’ time, it’s still going to be today’s young people who will be neck deep in this. They’re going to be the ones still working on it […] when we have...
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  • Youth Working Towards a Happier, Healthier, Safer World

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 24 July 2015
    “Sustainable development policies cannot be fully achieved without youth angles, perspectives and voices,” said Sana Afouaiz, a women’s advocate and blogger from Morocco. She believes that young people today should have the opportunity to participate in the political dialogue; it is their future...
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  • World Youth Skills Day 2015

    Alix Wurdak created a new event | 13 July 2015
    15 Jul
    From
    in Bonn 53113 (Germany)
    Organised by UNESCO-UNEVOC
    The United Nations General Assembly has decided to celebrate the first World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) on 15 July 2015to raise awareness on the importance of investing in youth skills development. WYSD celebrations coincide with an important year of setting the agenda for the future: a new climate...
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  • Beyond Climate Change in the Caribbean

    Yentyl Williams posted Information | 6 July 2015
    A new generation of youthful institutions that are inspiring and changing the climate of development across the Caribbean. Indeed, going beyond climate change in the Caribbean. Recent evidence based emerging from the Caribbean indicates that compared to previous generations, well over 75 percent of...
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  • First young forester summer camp in Azerbaijan

    Masha Vinokurova created a new event | 26 June 2015
    02 Aug
    From to
    in (Azerbaijan)
    Organised by FLEG II Programme
    A one-week summer camp for the most distinguished activists of the young foresters' movement as in Azerbaijan as well as in six participating countries. The main goal of the summer camp is to strengthen the cooperation, support possible interactions and joint initiatives by the young foresters.
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  • Côte-d'Ivoire- Save the Children

    Pierre Berman updated the WIKI page | 1 June 2015
    Place of the action : Côte-d'Ivoire- Mali - Burkina Faso Title of the project in the original language: Promouvoir la cohésion sociale et le renforcement des moyens de subsistance des jeunes/enfants travailleurs migrants par la mise en place de mécanismes de coordination nationaux et transnationaux...
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