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Get ready for change 2007 to 2010

The Get ready project involved children and young people in England in the reporting process for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It also helped them to campaign on children’s rights issues that matter …

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Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010

Get ready for Parliament!

On Tuesday 2 February at an event in Parliament, Get ready activists called on the Government to do more to protect and respect children’s rights.

Adam, Daniel-Sean, Imogen, Sana and Rhasan – on behalf of over 200 children and …

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Posted on Wednesday, February 03, 2010

November 2009 is children’s rights pledge month!

A children’s rights pledge is a public promise by a decision-maker to take action to improve children’s rights in the local area.

Pledge month, is a chance for you to encourage your local decision-makers to make a children’s rights …

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Posted on Friday, November 06, 2009

Make sure children aren’t shut out from the Equality Bill

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Young Equals is a group of charities and children and young people who are campaigning to stop age discrimination.

Tell your MP that under-18s should not be excluded from age discrimination protection in the Equality Bill. …

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Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Article number 6

Every child has the right to be alive and to be the best person they can be.

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Random fact no 2

Eighteen countries have changed the law to stop parents hitting their children (the date in brackets is when the law was changed) – Sweden (1979), Finland (1983), Norway (1987), Austria (1989), Cyprus (1994), Denmark (1997), Latvia (1998), Croatia (1999), Germany (2000), Bulgaria (2000), Israel (2000), Iceland (2003), Romania (2004), Ukraine (2004), Hungary (2005), Greece (2006), The Netherlands (2007) and New Zealand (2007).

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