Results List
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Vital YES vote in Children's Referendum Welcomed by Alliance
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Photo: Children's Rights AllianceIn an unprecedented step, Ireland has voted by referendum to change its Constitution to strengthen children's rights and better protect children. After nearly 20 years of vigorous campaigning for constitutional reform, the Children's Rights Alliance is delighted to finally welcome the passing…
Resource type: News
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Miami-Dade Voters Give a Great Gift to Children, Say Yes to The Children's Trust
Source: The Children's Trust
Original Source Miami, FL Aug. 27, 2008 Miami-Dade County voters gave a huge thumbs up to children and families by voting Tuesday to reauthorize The Children's Trust. More than 85 percent of voters approved the referendum to permanently establish The Children's Trust as the children's…
Resource type: News
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Advancing Children’s Rights
Children have rights to education, health, adequate standard of living, protection from abuse and neglect, and equality and non-discrimination.
Resource type: Issues
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Immigrant arrests sever parents, children
Source: Associated Press State & Local Wire
Original Source Brothers Ismael, Luis and Edwin Valeriano are U.S. citizens, but their lives have been upended by the arrest of their father as part of an escalating crackdown on illegal immigrants. In March, the boys' 38-year-old father, Ismael Valeriano, a single parent from Mexico…
Resource type: News
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Recent Children & Youth events help raise awareness for children's rights
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Children & Youth teams in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland jointly hosted a Youth Civic Action Workshop together with grantees SpunOut.ie and the UNESCO Chairs at NUIG and University of Ulster. They also hosted a joint event to present their new Strategy…
Resource type: News
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Ombudsman for Children Praises Mayo Children’s Initiative
Source: The Mayo News
A researcher has hailed the ‘spectacular progress’ made by a Castlebar-based children’s project and said its work was a model for other countries to follow.“What’s going on here in Mayo is of international significance,” said Professor Howard Stevenson of the University of Lincoln. He was…
Resource type: News
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Ready to Learn: Working in Partnership with Schools and Families to Help Raise Achievement
Source: Institute of Child Care Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Completing school is a fundamental task in order to succeed in life. Yet too many children from disadvantaged backgrounds fall behind soon after they start school and never catch up. A programme designed to help young children get the start they need has shown promising…
Resource type: Research Report
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Should Children Pay the Price for Inhumane U.S. Immigration Policies?
Source: Gara LaMarche
Every so often a story serves as a wake-up call that something is very wrong with the way the United States government deals with things. So it was with Saturday’s New York Times article about the actions of federal immigration agents last month in Ohio…
Resource type: News
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Speak Up for Health Coverage for Kids in the U.S.: Join the National Voice for Children
Source: Gara LaMarche
I’m visiting Atlantic’s programmes in Viet Nam right now, and a few days ago a provincial health official proudly told a group of us that the Government recently made health care free for all of the nine million Vietnamese children under the age of six.…
Resource type: News
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Neglect, Abuse Most Common Factors for Children in Care
Source: The Irish Times
By Pamela Duncan Neglect, abuse and mental illness among parents are among the most common reasons for children coming before the child care courts, a project established last year to examine and report on childcare proceedings has found. The first interim report of the Child Care…
Resource type: News