Millennium Development Goals and their Implications for Children
IFCW World Forum
21-24 August 2007 in New Delhi, India
DELHI DECLARATION
Preamble
We the NGO leaders, child rights activists and educators representing organizations from Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, West Indies, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America participated in the 18th Annual World Forum 2007 organized by Deepalaya in collaboration with the India Alliance for Child Rights and International Forum for Child Welfare. The theme of this forum was – “Millennium Development Goals and their Implications for Children.”
Declaration
We call on Government, Civil Society and Corporate world to come together in partnership to act and ensure that targets of the Millennium Development Goals are met specifically as it impacts on our children. We call on the people of the world to look at their cultural practices and begin to do away with those practices that cause harm to women and children and deny our young people a voice.
- We shall exchange information and ideas on the programmes planned and implemented for the development of women and children as well as for the achievement of MDGs, with all stakeholders within and outside the respective countries;
- We shall partner with all stakeholders within the respective countries as well as similar stakeholders in other countries to plan, implement, evaluate and take timely action to achieve the set targets;
- We shall collaborate with the International Forum for Child Welfare and other Child focused International Organizations to bring to the United Nations and its associate organizations, the problems being faced in the achievement of the set goals, as well as any new perspectives gained, for appropriate lobbying and advocacy;
- We commit to this declaration made on the 24th August 2007, at the 18th World Forum 2007, to ourselves and to the entire humanity.
The India Alliance for Child Rights works actively to develop participatory ‘open space’ for non-governmental consultation and collective learning and advocacy, and to build dialogue with legislators and government, scholars, artists and youth. Upholding Child Rights Convention (CRC) principles, it works for child rights in the wider frame of development with justice. It leads the national process of NGOs working for child rights review and reporting, and is a lead alliance for trans-Asia and South Asia networking on children’s rights as a development priority.
T.K. Mathew is one of the founding members of Deepalaya,
a Delhi-based NGO working with children from a slum background.
In the last 27 years, Deepalaya has established numerous facilities in and around Delhi to cater to the underprivileged and impoverished. While continuing their relief efforts, Deepalaya will be one of the hosts of the IFCW World Forum 2007.
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