Perspectives
Ethics Education for Children: A Critical Contribution to the Implementation of Agenda 2030

By Maria Lucia Uribe, Director Arigatou International Geneva

The world today is at the crossroads of technological progress and social, economic and political instability. On one side, we have more access to information and tools that allow us to communicate across borders; on the other, inequities, extreme ideologies, exclusion and discrimination are running rampant around the world.
 
When thousands of children and young people are skipping school to take to the streets, claim a better future, and demand better care for the global environment, we know that we are failing them as adults. When thousands of youth have to demonstrate to demand policies that provide them with decent opportunities, we know that our systems are failing them. When thousands of children take a stand on Universal Children’s Day to say “NO!” to violence against children, to say “STOP!” to corporal punishment, gender-based violence, discrimination, and all forms of violence, and to say “LISTEN to us!” we know that we are not doing enough to protect and work with children.

This opinion piece is extracted from the foreword of Arigatou International's Geneva Annual Report.  Click here to read the report. 

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Members' meeting
Second annual meeting of the International Consortium on Nurturing Values for the Prevention of Violence

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30th anniversary of the CRC
“Faith and Children’s Rights Study” launched at the United Nations in Geneva


With a panel discussion gathering more than 120 participants, the Multi-religious Study on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) “Faith and Children Rights” was launched at the United Nations in Geneva, on 19 November 2019, as part of the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the CRC.

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Adaptation for middle childhood
Pilots for the adaptation of the LTLT Programme come to an end

After running workshops in seven countries around the world, the pilots for the adaptation of the Learning to Live Together Programme to Middle Childhood came to an end after completing the three last pilots in Tanzania, in July, and in India and Ecuador in August 2019, and reaching a total of 250 children from several religious and ethnic communities and secular backgrounds.

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