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Here are some articles from children’s rights invstigators saying what they have been getting up to.

Day 1 at the UN in New York

December 8 2007

Hi guys this is Alex here giving the first, of many updates from New York!!!

Today was the first of the World Fit for Children + 5 events.

My highlights of today were, meeting the other delegates from all over the world and visiting Macys’s shopping mall and trying Japanese food for the first time and eating with chop sticks.

I’m really looking forward the main …

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TreacleThis article Day 1 at the UN in New York, was posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 by Treacle

Day 2 in NY

December 9 2007

Today I went to a meeting at the Town Hall which was to promote the ‘progress for children’ report. This is a statistical report showing the progress made by governments on HIV/Aids, education, child exploitation, poverty and children’s rights.

I asked a question about how do children defend their rights if they do not know that they exist and what can governments of the world do …

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Day three in New York

December 11 2007

Today I enjoyed the opening of the plenary meeting, at the General assembly in the UN HQ.

I felt that the opening speech made by one of my fellow youth forum colleagues on behalf of the rest of the youth forum was a very touching and moving speech and it was nice to see everybody’s ideas within the youth forum come together in a very powerful …

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TreacleThis article Day three in New York, was posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 by Treacle

Last day in New York

December 10 2007

Hi everybody. Today I spoke at the United Nations General Assembly. It was a great event, because I stood at the same podium as world leaders over the last 50 years – which not a lot of people from Essex have done. On the same token, it was a very sad day because we are leaving and it feels like everybody has just met!

But it was …

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TreacleThis article Last day in New York, was posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 by Treacle

Article number 29

Education is about helping children to develop fully as people.

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