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Together We Can End Child Poverty is a dialogue session aimed at highlighting community solutions to overcoming child poverty. It will enable reflection based on the perspectives of various actors within community – including children, faith actors, policy advocates and civil society – as stakeholders and duty bearers.
The rights of children, including the right to education, peace, participation and equality, will guide this conversation. It will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Child-Sensitive Social Protection (UCSSP), as pathways offering viable solutions to end child poverty. This will be considered within the current context of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its impacts on children and child poverty. In this session, we shall also present the ‘SDGs Learning for Children’ initiative as a solution.:
Moderator:
- Rev. Fred Nyabera, Director, Arigatou International – End Child Poverty
Co-moderator:
- Ms. Shazmin Rafeeq, Founder and Chief Executive, I CAN Malaysia
Speakers:
- Rev. Nicta M. Lubaale, General Secretary, Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC)
- Child from Syria, Kids Future
- Jigme from Bhutan, Youth Society, Bhutan
- Ms. Shazmin Rafeeq, Founder and Chief Executive, I CAN Malaysia
- Nouraine and Abadjamil from Comoros, Association Conseil De La Paix (CAP NGO)
- Mr. Jonas Habimana, Executive Director and Founder, Bureau d’Informations, Formations, Echanges et Recherches pour le Dévelopment (BIFERD) Democratic Republic of Congo
- Volunteers from Argentina, GNRC Argentina
- Jana and Vuk from Serbia, Sombor Education Centre (SEC)
- Ms. Isabelle Perrin, Director General for the World Day for Overcoming Poverty
- Mr. David Stewart, Child Poverty and Social Protection, UNICEF
- Mr. Michael Adikwu, Arigatou International—End Child Poverty
Wednesday 18, November 2020, at 12:00-13:30 GMT / 13:00-14:30 CET
