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Partnership between children and adults

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Preparations for CATS 2015 are now well under way. Children, young people and adults have been regularly working together on the backbones of the conference, which will focus this year on “Children & Adults, Partners for Change?”

Child to Child joins Step up to Serve's #iwill campaign

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In January 2015 we joined the Step up to Serve initiative, which aims to make social action part of life for more young people in the UK by 2020.

Ace Africa’s CtC health clubs receive Stars Award 2014

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Last Saturday 13 December, Joanna Waddington, Founder and Country Director of Ace Africa Tanzania, attended the Stars Impact Award 2014 ceremony in London. There, she received the Stars Impact Award in the category of health for Africa and the Middle East for Ace’s Community Health & Wellbeing programme, which uses the Child to Child approach.

Are children's rights finally at the top of the agenda?

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Last week Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, two renowned children’s rights activists and advocates, officially received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. This is a groundbreaking decision which puts children’s rights at the top of the international human rights agenda.

Celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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As we are celebrating today the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we would like to call attention to the need to urgently address the particular vulnerabilities of children with disabilities.

Children's participation on the child rights' agenda

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Child to Child celebrates the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) with an article published in ‘Opinion Internationale’. It addresses the lack of opportunity, for most children, to express their opinion and play a meaningful role in issues which affect them.

Children demand right to full active participation

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A Children’s Declaration of Rights has been presented to the Joint Council on Youth (JCY), which is gathered for its annual meeting at the Council of Europe. The child authors of the Declaration met this summer 2014 whilst participating in the Children as Actors for Transforming Society (CATS) conference in Caux, Switzerland

Read Child to Child stories for health education

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A series of storybooks on health education is now available for download. The short books give also ideas for activities to play with children, applying the Child to Child participatory approach.