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21-24 August 2007 in New Delhi, India
DELHI DECLARATION
Preamble We the NGO leaders, child rights activists
and educators representing organizations from Australia, Canada, Finland,
Germany, West Indies, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, South
Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America participated in the
18th Annual World Forum 2007 organized by Deepalaya in collaboration
with the India Alliance for Child Rights and International Forum for
Child Welfare. The theme of this forum was – “Millennium
Development Goals and their Implications for Children.” Declaration
We call on Government, Civil Society and Corporate world to come together
in partnership to act and ensure that targets of the Millennium Development
Goals are met specifically as it impacts on our children. We call
on the people of the world to look at their cultural practices and
begin to do away with those practices that cause harm to women and
children and deny our young people a voice.
- We shall exchange information and ideas on the programmes planned
and implemented for the development of women and children as well
as for the achievement of MDGs, with all stakeholders within and
outside the respective countries;
- We shall partner with all stakeholders within the respective
countries as well as similar stakeholders in other countries to
plan, implement, evaluate and take timely action to achieve the
set targets;
- We shall collaborate with the International Forum for Child
Welfare and other Child focused International Organizations to
bring to the United Nations and its associate organizations, the
problems being faced in the achievement of the set goals, as well
as any new perspectives gained, for appropriate lobbying and advocacy;
- We commit to this declaration made on the 24th August 2007,
at the 18th World Forum 2007, to ourselves and to the entire humanity.
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