Partnership for children's rights

Putting children’s rights at the centre of global and country-level policy debates, and programmes for poverty reduction and human development requires global efforts from anyone who cares the future of the children of the world.

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The Innocenti Library The international library on children's rights - a joint UNICEF IRC/IDI project
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence A presentation and a tour of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC)

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Expert consultation in preparation of the World Congress III

Preparatory Meeting for the World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents

21-23 April 2008

From the 21st to the 23rd of April, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre hosted a series of thematic expert consultations on child trafficking and child sex tourism, in preparation for the World Congress III against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents to be held in Brazil in November 2008. The consultations were organized in close cooperation with UNICEF’s Child Protection section in New York, and with the support of UNICEF TACRO and Brazil.
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Carmen Silvia de Oliveira, Coordinator of the Central Organizing Committee, Government of Brazil

The Coordinator of the Central Organizing Committee of the Government of Brazil illustrated the preparatory process to the World Congress III

23 April 2008

The Coordinator of the Central Organizing Committee of the Government of Brazil illustrated on the last day of the meeting the preparatory process to the World Congress III.
During the session on World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolecents, she spoke about the participation of adolescents at the World Congress. "They are not representing themselves, they are not representing an entity. They are there to represent the voices of all adolescents" she said.