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.

Governance and child rights are mutually reinforcing, said UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Hilde F. Johnson. Child rights principles as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, provide a set of values that are key guiding principles for the work of governments not only guiding principles, they are obligations.

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