22nd August 2007
23rd August 2007
24th August 2007

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.

1. 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;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. We commit to this declaration made on the 24th August 2007, at the 18th World Forum 2007, to ourselves and to the entire humanity.

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• Welcome address by Local Host

• Introduction of IFCW & World Forum

• Inaugural Address

• Key Note Address

• Vote of Thanks by Co-Host

• Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger -
  Promote Inclusion

• Ms. Devika Singh, Mobile Creches
• Ms. Coleen Clare, CEO - Centre for Excellence in Child & Family
  Welfare
• Dr. Sumana Pandy, Teacher - Govt. Girls College

• Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger -
  Promote Inclusion

• Ms. Manjula Mehra, AADI
• Dr. Neerja Sharma, Professor - Lady Irwin College
• Ms. Annie Koshy, Principal - St. Mary’s School

• Global partnership for development

• Dr. Geoff Pawson, CEO - Ranch Ehrlo Society
• Ms. Elba I Montalvo, Executive Director - Committee for Hispanic
  Children & Families
• Mr. Kumar Swamy, Dalit Freedom Network

• Reduce Child Mortality and Improve Maternal Health

• Mr. Subrata Dutta, Project Officer - BPNI
• Mr. Vasu, BAHAI
• Ms. Shireen Miller, Save the Children UK

• Child Rights issues of Child Development - Universal Primary Education

• Dr. Ray Cleary, CEO - Angolicare Victoria
• Prof. R. Govinda, Professor - NUEPA
• Dr. Asha Singh, Professor - Lady Irwin College

• Child Rights, Education and HIV/AIDS awareness

• Ms. Aravinda Satyavada, Consultant - Family Life Education
• Dr. Jyotsna Rajvanshi, Project Director - Childline

• Promote gender equality and empower women

• s. Tina Olyai, Director, Little Angels School
• Mr. MO Peter, Director Special Programs - Deepalaya
• Ms. Shradha Kapoor, Reader - Lady Irwin College

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• UN Millennium Development Goals
• Global Data Monitoring Information of the World Bank
• Millennium Project
• UNICEF - Millennium Development Goals

Downloadable Documents

• Millennium Development Report 2006 (pdf 1,4 MB)published in 2006 by the UN
• UNICEF - MDG: They are for Children (pdf 84 KB)published in 2003 by UNICEF
• Child Poverty in the Developing World (pdf 292 KB)written by Gorden, Nandy, Pantazis, Pemberton and Townsend, published in 2003 by Policy Press
• Millenium Development Goals and Child Labour (pdf 182 KB)written by Grimsrud and published in 2003 by UCW

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This World Forum 2007 will attempt to assess and review the progress made so far and shall discuss and deliberate on how children can gain from the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

It also proposes to address contemporary issues vis a vis the Millennium Development Goals and its impact both positive and negative and promote awareness as well as challenge the civil society and Governments to achieve these goals.

This gain will be substantial only if children’s voices are heard; their domestic conditions are improved, if distortions in international markets are corrected, and if more representative institutions of local and global governance are created. In the absence of these changes, the Millennium Development Goals will benefit only a minority of the world’s children.