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December 2007 Advocacy in Practice: Convention on the Rights of the Child New York, USA
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Advocacy in Practice participants
present during the training
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During the week of December 10, 2007, UN delegates met to review progress made since the 2002 Special Session on Children. The Assembly's two-day high level meeting examined advances and setbacks in child well-being, and concluded with the adoption of a declaration reaffirming the global and national commitments to the goals set in 2002.
In preparation for this meeting, IWHC hosted an Advocacy in Practice (AiP) workshop for sixteen young advocates from fifteen countries working on reproductive rights and health. During the training, participants critiqued the UN delegates' draft declaration of the high level plenary follow-up. The young advocates felt that the language in the draft declaration failed to include specific measures to address some of the biggest challenges faced by youth, including HIV, unwanted pregnancy, and violence and coercion.
As a result, they made revisions to strengthen the declaration and advocated for the changes during the UN meeting following the training. The participants submitted a revised version to advocates, the press and country delegates.
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Advocacy in Practice participants
finalize their revisions to the draft
declaration at the United Nations |
>>Click here to view the revisions (in bold and tracked changes) proposed by the young advocates.
>>Click here for a Sydney Morning Herald article about AiP participant Angela Barker.
>>Click here to read a blog by AiP participant Angela Barker.
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