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Child Rights

Let's put children first!

Child Rights

Let's put children first!

It's time to put children at the 💖 of Australian Aid

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A child’s first 1000 days will shape their lifelong health, cognitive development and growth. Childhood poverty often leads to stunting and mental health, behavioural and social problems. Investing in children early limits intergenerational poverty and illness.

Watch this video of World Vision Senior Policy Advisor (Child Rights) Mercy Jumo to find out how and why the Government must put children first.

We the undersigned urge Australia's Leaders to put children at the heart of Australian aid by:

  1. Investing in children's development because the formative years lay the foundation for a human being's life
  2. starting to measure the investments made for children and their impact
  3. Increasing aid to help end violence against children
Australia: leave no child behind!
 

Yours Faithfully,

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Discover other ways you can help protect children!

NextGen Aid - Report Card on Children and Australian Aid

 

This report calls on the Australian Government to create a next generation aid program; one that puts children at the centre of development and humanitarian assistance to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. It is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. Investing in children brings a triple dividend of benefits: it immediately improves the lives of the most vulnerable children, builds their productivity for future life stages, and lays the foundations for strong development outcomes for the next generation.

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Children account for half of those living in poverty and more than half of the world’s refugees BUT less than a quarter of Australia's Aid focusses on helping children.

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HOME: Drawings by Syrian Children

 

A collection of drawings by Syrian children, the most vulnerable victims of a brutal civil war, curated by Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty, with a Foreword by Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. 

Ben Quilty has assembled this heartbreaking and awe-inspiring collection of drawings by Syrian children. These drawings form an extraordinary testament to the resilience of a generation of survivors whose childhood has been shaped by the worst war of our century. Their art speaks directly to us all as human beings, and we have an obligation to listen closely and seriously.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will directly support World Vision’s Child Friendly Spaces, early childhood and basic education projects in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.

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HOME by Ben Quilty - Syrian Children's Drawings Refugee Children Kids Drawings War Conflict Displacement Asylum Seekers

We should not look away from these children's pictures. They have things to say, and it is time we looked, and it is time we listened. - Richard Flanagan

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Why we should and how we can prioritise children in Australian Aid

Children First

World Vision has a bold plan for the Australian Government to ensure that at least 80% of Australian Aid investments, regardless of their objectives, effectively support, protect and empower children. 

Why?

  1. children are more likely to live in poverty than adults;
  2. children experience inequality and poverty in different ways than adults;
  3. children have the right to be heard and listened to; and
  4. children have the right to be protected.

Read our Recommendations to the Government...

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Send a girl to school

 

A decent education is every child's right. 

According to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, all young people should complete upper secondary school by 2030. Around the world, only 43% of young people did so in the period 2008-14.

You can help with that.

 

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“Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book.” - Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has not been directly incorporated into Australian law as a whole. - Children and their Rights Policy

WORLD VISION'S CHILD RIGHTS POLICIES


Children and their rights

Children are entitled to special care and assistance and also entitled to exercise their right to participate in matters affecting them.

Most vulnerable children
We focus our work on reaching and supporting children who live in catastrophic situations and relationships characterised by violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, exclusion and discrimination.

We seek improved learning outcomes, particularly for the most vulnerable children, through high-quality and inclusive education at all stages of the life cycle.

Maternal and newborn child health
We affirm that all people, including women and children, should be well nourished, protected from infection and disease, and have access to essential health services, regardless of where they live.

Young people
We recognise the importance of supporting and working with young people to ensure their voice, ideas and actions have a platform and can contribute to positive change and to building peaceful societies.

World Vision: 50 Years of protecting children

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