UNICEF: Ensuring rights through governance

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NEW YORK, USA, 28 October 2009 In the effort to make further progress on implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), much depends upon delivering good governance for children. At a panel held at UNICEF House in New York yesterday, experts discussed the interdependence between child rights and good governance.

Participants also sought to identify ways in which governance theories and structures can be better used for the realization of childrens needs and rights.

African Child Policy Forum Executive Director Dr. Assefa Bequele presented a unique way of determining which governments are child-friendly and which are less so, based on the core principles of the CRC. What really matters, he argued, is not the economic status of a country but the degree to which its laws and policies take children into account.

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• UNICEF
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• Child
• CRC
• governance
• Assefa
• Bequele