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06.02.2009 -
Berlin, 3rd February 2009. The alliance Entwicklung hilft is calling for "escape corridors", free access to the trapped civilians, and the immediate dispatch of international observers to northern Sri Lanka. According to local partner organisations, 300,000 people are currently trapped on an area of 250 square kilometres. The Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebels are engaged in intense fighting for this region. In less than two days, several hundred civilians have been killed, and countless others injured.
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28.11.2008 -
(Duisburg, 28. November 2008) Germany will be evaluated by the Human Rights Council on 2 February 2009 within the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Kindernothilfe submitted a Joint NGO Submission on child rights focussing on the reservations to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the effects on children. Read the full text here.
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28.11.2008 -
With the financial assistance from Kindernothilfe and together with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and UNICEF, the Uganda Child Rights NGO Network has developed 'The National Child Participation Guide for Uganda'. This guide is specifically designed for those working at institutions/organizations including schools and health care providers; legal institutions; probation and welfare institutions; local councils; Non Governmental Organisations; Community-Based Organisations and the media. It is intended to facilitate meaningful participation of children from family through to national and international levels.
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17.10.2008 -
(Duisburg, 17.10.2008) STAND UP and TAKE ACTION is the third annual Stand Up mobilization coordinated by the Millennium Campaign and the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) to coincide with the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17. Kindernothilfe and several of its partner organizations are taking part in the event.
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28.08.2008 -
This year again there will be a world-wide Stand Up event on the International Day of Poverty Eradication, on 17 October. The Stand Up is organised by the UN Millennium Campaign. The activity day under the motto "Stand up and Speak out" will be held across the world from 17 to 19 October.
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13.06.2008 -
Kindernothilfe is part of the Working Group for the communications procedure under the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The group organized a side event on 10 June during the 8th session of the Human Rights Council with the outcome that the Committee on the Rights of the Child endorses the campaign.
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09.06.2008 -
(Duisburg, June 2008) Kindernothilfe has submitted together with six international NGOs a joint written statement to the eight session of the Human Rights Council calling on the Council to establish an open-ended Working Group of States to draft an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child for the creation of a communications procedure under the Convention.
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30.05.2008 -
(Duisburg/ Berlin, May 2008) Despite progress, efforts to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers are too little and too late for many children, according to the 2008 Child Soldiers Global Report, presented by the German Section of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in Berlin.
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05.05.2008 -
Last year Kindernothilfe signed the petition calling for the appointment of the Special Representative on Violence Against Children (SRSG) together with more than 1.000 organisations worldwide. 183 UN Member States endorsed the call, too, by a Resolution of the General Assembly. In a letter directed to the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Kindernothilfe welcomes the progress towards the appointment of the Special Representative and raises some concerns regarding the further process.
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