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UNICEF Canada Advocacy

"[Children's rights are] extremely important, it gives them a chance to grow up and become something, not grow up broken"

-a young person speaking about their view of children’s rights.


UNICEF Canada's advocacy programme, This Generation, works to secure, protect and advance the rights of children to ensure their best interests come first; invisible and excluded children are not forgotten and fewer children live below the standards set by human rights instruments. The advocacy team carries out this work by promoting public awareness, conducting and sharing research, informing public policy, sharing practical information, tools and standards and promoting the participation of children and young people.

 

The UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 9 The Children Left Behind

Examining inequalities in child well-being in the world’s richest countires

Whether in health, in education, or in material well-being, some children will always fall behind the average. The critical question is: 
How far behind? Is there a point beyond which falling behind is not inevitable,
but policy susceptible - and unacceptable?
View parts 2 and 3 of the video series on YouTube.
The UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 9: 
The Children Left Behind, examines the material, educational and health well-being of children in 24 of the world’s richest countries. 
It is the first attempt to compare the gap between children struggling at the bottom of their societies and the average child in “normal” childhood conditions. The disadvantaged children fall – unnecessarily –  further behind in some countries than in others.



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Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC). 

 

The United Nations General Assembly in 2000 adopted two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to increase the protection of children from involvement in armed conflicts and from sexual exploitation. 

The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC) sets out special rights for all children and youth. Young people should know about these rights if they are thinking of joining the armed forces or related education and training, or have already done so. All young people in Canada have these rights because Canada ratified OPAC on July 07, 2000 and put in place a number of measures to ensure that the recruitment of children and youth is based on full information.

 

Find out more about the rights of children and youth related to the military in this brochure developed by UNICEF Canada, YOUCAN and the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children in consultation with the Government of Canada.

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