Theme of the Year 2009: Child Rights

Kindernothilfe contributes to publication of "The National Child Participation Guide for Uganda"

(Duisburg, 28. November 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. more

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Advocacy: Child rights are human rights

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. more

The individual complaints procedure

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. more

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Interview: Placing Children in the Limelight

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. more

Child Rights Approach (pdf, 1,3 MB)

More often than not children are unaware of their rights meant to protect, promote and strengthen them. It is the more important that children and adolescents become aware of their rights and learn to assert them in their daily lives and with a view to their future. This will not happen on its own. They need human beings and organisations campaigning for the children‘s rights together with them. To take an interest in children, to listen to them, to trust that they are able to develop their own ideas for themselves and their lives - together with the rights of protection and provision, participation is the third pillar of the rights of the child. more