The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded annually to a child who has made a significant contribution to advocating children's rights and improving the situation of vulnerable children such as orphans, child labourers and children with HIV/AIDS. The prize is an initiative of the KidsRights Foundation, an international children's aid and advocacy organisation based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. KidsRights should not be confused with the group which grants the Nobel Peace … [Read more...]
The International Children’s Peace Prize 2013
September 6, 2013 by Team Celebration
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Razi Sultan of Meerut receives first UN Malala award
July 13, 2013 by Team Celebration
Former child labourer Razi Sultan of Meerut receives first UN Malala award Meerut, Jul 13: A young girl from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, who has been tackling the problem of child labour has been conferred with the first United Nations Malala Award for educating child labourers. On learning this news, there was excitement and ecstasy in and around the residence of Razia Sultan. Sultan, 15, will be felicitated as United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education's Youth Courage Award … [Read more...]
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Malala Yousefzai celebrates ‘all children’ on her 16th Birthday!
July 12, 2013 by Team Celebration
Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ; Urdu: ملالہ یوسف زئی Malālah Yūsafzay, born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing … [Read more...]
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Education urgently needed for 28.5 million school age children
July 12, 2013 by Team Celebration
Urgent action is needed to bring education to the 28.5 million primary school age children out of school in the world’s conflict zones. UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2011 brought to focus the hidden crisis of education in conflict-affected countries. Two years later a new paper (Policy Paper 10, July 2013) titled Children still battling to go to school by UNESCO’s EFA Global Monitoring Report shows that half of the 57 million children out of school live … [Read more...]
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Sign Petition, Days to end the education emergency
July 11, 2013 by Team Celebration
Killed for going to school The Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala in the head for her education activism. But she survived, helped win education for all girls in Pakistan, and will address the UN in 3 days asking leaders to agree to put every child on the planet in school, a shockingly achievable goal. Let's stand with her, and call for education for all: SIGN HERE The young women were heading home from college in Pakistan when the Taliban firebombed their school bus, … [Read more...]
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Ban Ki-Moon speaks with Malala!
April 9, 2013 by Team Celebration
As of 5 April, only 1,000 days remain until the end of the 2015 target date for achieving the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The eight MDGs – which range from halving extreme poverty to promoting gender equality to providing universal primary education by the target date of 2015 – form an internationally agreed blueprint which countries and leading development institutions have signed onto. Since their adoption in 2000, the MDGs have made a huge difference, helping to set global and … [Read more...]
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