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EU Alliance for Investing in Children welcomes European Child Guarantee adoption

June 14 2021 - The European Child Guarantee is an EU initiative aiming at reducing child poverty and social exclusion and improving the access to basic services of children in vulnerable situations. SOS Children’s Villages International very much welcomes the adoption and is a signatory of the Alliance’s statement.

Child Safeguarding

Strengthening child safeguarding in high-risk countries: What is happening in Eastern and Southern Africa

June 10 2021 - SOS Children’s Villages operates in more than 130 countries around the world, some of which have a higher safeguarding risk than others.

Child Safeguarding

Austria’s ombudsperson system and how it enhances child protection

June 8 2021 - Setting up an ombudsperson system that represents the rights of children, young people and others affected by abuse is one of the pillars of SOS Children’s Villages’ action plan to improve safeguarding.

Statement

SOS Children’s Villages responds to failures in safeguarding and governance

May 6 2021 - SOS Children’s Villages has announced rapid improvements in safeguarding and governance measures following its International Senate meeting of 29 April 2021.

Youth participation

Young people share challenges and ideas with UN and government representatives

April 28 2021 - A group of 28 young people from SOS Children’s Villages programmes around the world took part in the annual United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum in early April. Their participation in the debates with UN and government representatives gave visibility

Child Participation

“I felt like an ambassador for all children of Niger”

April 26 2021 - 14-year old Inoussa from SOS Children’s Villages Niamey, Niger delivered a statement to a United Nations audience as part of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-session. The UPR is the UN human rights mechanism that reviews the overall human rights situation in all 193 UN member states. Inoussa was the only child to make a statement.

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