Global Movement for Children

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Global Movement for Children (GMC) (Engl. For Global Movement for Children ) is a worldwide movement of non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world adapt to the needs of children.

GMC was born from the success of the UNICEF campaign Say Yes for Children (Engl. For Say yes to children ), which led and UN Special Assembly for Children 2002 citizens of every nation, families, communities, civil society and organizations of all kinds to an active associated influential movement.

The main objectives are:

  • Unite and coordinate a large global entity of organizations and individuals to influence public opinion and take joint action
  • Promote and support the participation of children
  • Influencing and encouraging political declarations of intent and public responsibility

So GMC tries to achieve global lobbying for children's rights and responsibility of governments for children together.

history

The children's rights movement emerged in the early twentieth century when individuals and public institutions as well as NGOs began to band together to make their efforts more effective to improve the lives of children around the world. In the last few years the movement has grown considerably and taken on a common direction through the drafting and entry into force of the Children's Rights Convention , which was passed in 1989 on the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child .

After the adoption of the convention, further events followed in terms of the GMC:

  • The Children's Summit 1990
  • Graça Machel's study on the impact of armed conflict on children (1996)
  • Worldwide campaigns against landmines, child labor, sexual exploitation and against the use of child soldiers
  • The 2002 GMC committee of the Say Yes for Children campaign

Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel started GMC at the United Nations and since then it has brought together thousands of children's rights organizations. Over the years, GMC has focused on the following issues:

  • Education for girls
  • Children and AIDS
  • Violence against children
  • Survival of children
  • Children and Migration and Transport

The role of Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel

Mandela and Machel are the godparents of the GMC, its visible advocates and its inspiring leaders. As key figures in the GMC, both political, civil, youth, religious and other leaders are involved in the campaign to improve the lives of children around the world. They act as catalysts to motivate these leaders from rhetorical statements to concrete promises, actions and results that intend to improve children's living conditions.

UN General Assembly Declaration on GMC

In 2002 the UN General Assembly decided the following:

Article 62: "We hereby recommit ourselves to spare no effort in continuing with the creation of a world fit for children, building on the achievements of the past decade and guided by the principles of first call for children. In solidarity with a broad range of partners, we will lead a Global Movement for Children that creates an unstoppable momentum for change. "
Free translation: “We hereby re-commit ourselves to making no effort to create a world that will continue to be suitable for children, building on what has been achieved over the past decade and guided by the principles of asking about children first. In solidarity with a wide range of partners, we will lead a worldwide movement for children that will create an unstoppable momentum of change. "

Steering Committee

The GMC's Convening Committee currently consists of the largest children's organizations: ENDA Tiers Monde, Plan International, REDLAMYC, Save the Children, UNICEF and World Vision International.

There are separate regional management groups that work with national child rights organizations.

Governing Committee Principles
  1. Child rights-based approach: The steering committee focuses on children's rights as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Recognition of this approach presupposes that there can be no compromises with children's rights and that the steering committee defends them with determination.
  2. Child Participation: Child participation is at the heart of the Steering Committee's activities. Children are the best advocates for children. Those who are marginalized, injured, or living in poverty can better understand how these circumstances affect their daily lives and should therefore be able to fully participate in planning and implementing solutions. Children have an active role in the GMC, mainly at the local and national level, but also internationally. They are involved in the management of the GMC as well as in the actions.
  3. Sexual equality: girls and boys have equal rights and the governing committee is working to put this principle into practice. This requires a work approach that pays attention to gender and especially girls' rights. In addition, the steering committee pays particular attention to respecting diversity, pluralism, tolerance and the pursuit of happy coexistence by trying to eliminate all forms of social discrimination .
  4. Versatile and Holistic Approach: The organizations integrate very diverse groups to form a movement that aims to create a broad group that is benevolent towards children. These groups try to form partnerships with existing national, regional and international associations for children's rights.
  5. Institutional and long-term reform: These organizations jointly look after advocacy work (lobbying). With this in mind, they focus on educational work to bring about institutional changes that create the conditions to fully implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  6. Rooted Locally, Globally Relevant: The Steering Committee is by nature grassroots participation and takes into account the impact it may have locally on its global operations. Therefore, the work of the steering committee begins at the community level and builds on it globally.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gmfc.org/
  2. ↑ http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/docs_new/documents/A-RES-S27-2E.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/S-27/19/REV.1%28SUPP%29&Lang=E
  4. ↑ Article 62, Section D, A World Fit for Children, Report of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children (A / S-27/19 / Rev.1)
  5. ↑ http://www.gmfc.org/en/about-us/organisations-engaged
  6. ↑ http://www.enda.sn/
  7. ↑ http://plan-international.org/
  8. ↑ http://www.redlamyc.info/
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.net
  10. ↑ http://www.unicef.org/
  11. ↑ Annual Report 2003. (PDF) World Vision , archived from the original on July 29, 2010 ; accessed on July 29, 2010 (German).
  12. ↑ http://www.gmfc.org/en/about-us/organisations-engaged/regional-platforms