Blog: Holiday hunger is a human rights issue

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Right to life, survival and development
Author: Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland (CYPCS)

Máire McCormack, Head of Policy at the Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland office has written a blog about children from low-income families going hungry during the school holidays.

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Child rights resources for public bodies published in Wales

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: General measures of implementation
Author: Children's Commissioner for Wales

'The Right Way: A Children's Rights Approach in Wales?' outlines a principled and practical framework for working with children, grounded in the UNCRC, to help public bodies to integrate children's rights into every aspect of decision-making, policy and practice.

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Reach More Young People! Promoting Youth Work and Youth Information Services

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
Author: Eurodesk

A new publication has been launched to inspire organisations working with young people across Europe.

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Launch of ‘Prevent and End Violence against Children and Youth’ campaign

Date: 24th July 2017
Category: Equal protection from violence, General principles
Author: Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF)

WWSF has launched its 2017 Prevention Kit '19 Days of Activism for Prevention of Violence Against Children and Youth 1-19 November'. The Call to Action is linked with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 Target 16.2, which went into effect as of 2016.

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Unicef UK launch Child Rights Launchpad competition

Date: 29th June 2017
Category: Awareness-raising
Author: UNICEF UK

Unicef UK have launched a competition to design a rights-based game Unicef's Child Rights Launchpad that can be played in the classroom, playground, or sports hall.

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Videos: Power Up/Power Down

Date: 31st May 2017
Category: Looked after children
Author:

The Commissioner's office and Scottish Women's Aid have released videos around Power Up/Power Down, a participative project that helped children and young people with lived experience of domestic abuse explore the processes and decisions involved in court-ordered contact.

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Rights to Care resource launched with Who Cares? Scotland

Date: 31st May 2017
Category: Looked after children
Author: Who Cares? Scotland

The Commissioner's office has worked with Who Cares? Scotland to jointly produce resources to help young people in care, care leavers and the adults who support them.

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‘Ask Alex’ bot aims to educate the public about the reasons for youth homelessness

Date: 2nd May 2017
Category: Basic Health and Welfare
Author: Cyrenians Scotland

Cyrenians has become the first organisation to create a digital robot to educate the public about homelessness. Alex has been created after Cyrenians carried out research that uncovered 15% of Scots believe young people are homeless out of personal choice.

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Spotlight on bullying

Date: 2nd May 2017
Category: Respect for the views of the child
Author: Children's Parliament

What does a rights-based approach to bullying look like? Children's Parliament has been exploring this with children across Edinburgh.

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New guide - LGBT people and mental health

Date: 14th April 2017
Category: Mental health, Non-discrimination
Author: Mental Welfare Commission

A drive to improve mental health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people has begun with the launch of a new guide by the Mental Welfare Commission.

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