Africa: Afrika- Wide Movement for Children opgericht!

AFRIKA: Africa-Wide Movement for Children (AWMC) Established

De Movement voor Children roept alle Afrikaanse en internationale organisaties die actief zijn in Afrika op zich bij deze beweging aan te sluiten. De Movement van nu al meer dan 200 civil society organisaties in Afrika is opgericht op een conferentie in Addis Abeba en wordt geleid door vertegenwoordigers van de twee grote Afrikaanse netwerken die ook relaties hebben met BCN partners: ANPPCAN en ACPF. Wijs uw partner in Afrika op deze beweging en laat hen zich aansluiten om zo te zorgen dat de krachten en kennis gebundeld worden in het belang van de kinderen in Afrika.

News:
The establishment of an Africa-wide Movement for Children was announced at the Second Consultative Meeting of African Child, Youth and Human Rights Organisations.
The Meeting endorsed the proposals made by the eight-member Steering Committee to establish a coordinated, well organised and all inclusive body that will lobby for the betterment of the lives and living conditions of children in Africa.
The Movement will, at the continental and global levels, point out the plight of children in African countries and push concerned bodies towards this agenda.

The main objectives of the Movement will be to contribute to the emergence of an African voice for children in the continent, to advocate and lobby for the promotion and protection of the best interests of the African child at the national and pan-African levels, to promote solidarity and provide mutual support and collaboration amongst child rights organisations and to promote accountability amongst child rights organisations with respects to the children under their care.

The movement will have child-focused organisations, networks, institutions and individual child activists as members.
Some of the envisioned activities are:
- Facilitating and promoting the exchange of information,
- Advocacy for the rights of children in general and of those in especially difficult situation, specifically those caught in conflict and similar situations,
- Alerting and mobilising members against dangers to child-rights advocates and defenders,
- Helping define and articulate common positions at the pan-African and international levels
- Lobbying for the best interests of children in national, Pan-African and international fora
- Seek opportunities to collaborate on joint activates e.g. research, sharing of best practice interventions

The Movement will have a General Assembly that is composed of all registered members, Custodians and a Secretariat.
The African Child Policy Forum will serve as the Secretariat of the Movement.
The Movement calls on all child–focused organisations and activists working for the betterment of the lives of children in Africa to come together to share information, build on each others successes and create a strong voice. It also calls on all international organisations outside the Continent to back this Movement and help create the necessary focus and attention to the pertinent and life threatening issues that the movement is committed to address.

To be a member of the Africa Wide Movement for Children (AWMC) or for any additional information, contact:
- Ms Wambui Njuguna,
President AWMC at wnjuguna@anppcan.org
- Ms Makda Taffese,
Secretariat AWMC at makda.taffese@africanchildforum.org 

For more information, contact:
African Child Policy Forum
PO Box 1179, Addis Ababa
Tel: +11 552 84 07; Fax: +11 551 34 20
Email: info@africanchildforum.org
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