Children as Partners (CAP) is a place where young people and adults from around the world who support child participation can share what they think, what they know and helpful information. We invite you to sign up and participate!

Pui San W. (Australia)



 



LATEST NEWS :
  • Out of Home Living and Caring: What Do Young People Think?
    Young people from across the globe are asked to participate in "A Place For Us" a web dialogue on what they perceive to be good practice for out of home living and caring. The four-week web dialogues begin Monday, 9 August and continue through Friday, 3 September.


        --Added: August 12th 2004



  • New Members Elected to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
    The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the body that monitors states' compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, held elections in New York recently for nine new members in accordance with Article 45 of the Convention.

    Of the seven Committee members, running for re-election, five were re-elected in the first round of voting. Ms. Ghalia Al-Thani (Qatar) received the most votes with 136 followed immediately by Ms. Lucy Smith (Norway) with 134. Also re-elected in the first round of voting was Ms. Yanghee Lee (Republic of Korea) with 110 votes, Ms. Joyce Aluoch (Kenya) with 106 votes, and Ms. Nevena Vuckovic-Sahovic (Serbia and Montenegro) with 100 votes. Mr. Ibrahmin Al-Sheddi (Saudi Arabia) lost in the second round of voting and Ms. Marilia Sardenberg (Brazil), who was attempting an unprecedented fourth term, was eliminated after the first round. Mr. Luigi Citarella (Italy) and Ms. Saisuree Chutikul (Thailand) did not run for re-election.
        --Added: March 4th 2005



  • New tool for Youth to Review Countries' Progress
    There's a new tool to help youth (aged 15-24 years) evaluate how their country is doing on national youth policy. The hope is that the tool will support youth participation in 2005 when the UN General Assembly reviews achievements on the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond (WPAY).
        --Added: July 30th 2004

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FEATURE PARTNERSHIP:

The Wayuu Women’s Network and University of Zulia Indigenous Children’s Education Project - Venezuela

    --Added: July 28th 2004
In 1985 the Wayuu Women’s Network established a partnership with the University of Zulia to address a growing concern over the acculturation of Wayuu children, loss of language, culture, and religion, and an ensuing breakdown of family and community protection of children.
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FEATURE PUBLICATION :

Universal Birth Registration - a Universal Responsibility

    --Added: April 4th 2005
Half a Billion Children Unregistered

A new fifty-page report, Universal Birth Registration - a Universal Responsibility, published by Plan, says that no records exist of the birth of six out of every ten babies born annually in South Asia.
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FEATURE RESEARCH:

Youth and Municipal Government in France

    --Added: December 18th 2004
This is a paper done as part of the Growing up in Cities (Canada) project and the Canadian government.
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FEATURE TOOL :

So You Want to Consult with Children? A Toolkit of Good Practice

    --Added: March 7th 2005
If you would like to involve children in discussions about issues that affect them but don’t know how to do it, then it is hoped that this toolkit will provide you with a lot of useful material for getting started.
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