Theme of the Year 2008: Child Rights
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Children everywhere in the world have rights. These are set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Kindernothilfe calls for the introduction of the right of individual complaint as an effective instrument to implement this UN convention.
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The individual complaints procedure is a monitoring procedure used by UN organs for the implementation of human rights. It allows the individual to bring a complaint of violations of his/her rights by a particular state before an independent UN-Committee - but only after all domestic legal remedies have been exhausted.
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Kindernothilfe has announced that in 2008 and 2009, their theme of the year will be the rights of the child. Barbara Dünweller, Kindernothilfe's child rights expert spoke to Gunhild Aiyub (editor) about what that means for her work in Germany and abroad.
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