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World Forum Foundation Report Global Working Initiative on Children's Rights

by Moss, Norway • June 1-4, 2012
September/October 2012
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During the 2011 World Forum, a group of delegates began talking about the possibility of developing a Working Group on Children’s Rights. They considered this an opportunity for those who are passionate about the rights of children to launch a global initiative, using the World Forum Foundation and the World Forum on Early Care and Education as a ­platform. Presentations by panelists and reflections and ­support by participants at the World Forum inspired the ­organization of a Working Forum Global Working Initiative on Children’s Rights. Goals for the initiative included learning about the work of existing groups surrounding children’s rights, determining the need for a World Forum Working Group on Children’s Rights, developing initial goals for this Working Group, and planning preliminary strategies for accomplishing these goals.

Children’s rights advocates from Brazil, Canada, India, ­Norway, Oman, Singapore, the United States, and Wales met at the American College of Norway. The meeting began with a question: How did you get to this chair? The introduction to one another, through a sharing of our favorite chairs and the reasons we had made the journey to Moss, marked the beginning of the formation of many wonderful relationships within a community dedicated to children’s rights. ...

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