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- Maiti Nepal could be Decade Child Rights Hero for 22 million children !!! - 2009-07-28
Children in Nepal will take part in the decision!!!
22 million children in 50,000 schools in 94 countries are behind the World's Children's Prize for the Right's of the Child (WCPRC). This year the prize will be awarded for the tenth time. The 13 prize candidates include Maiti Nepal, saviour of child sex slaves Somaly Mam from Cambodia, Nelson Mandela and murdered carpet factory slave Iqbal Masih. Millions of children will participate in this year's Global Vote to decide who will be trhe Decade Child Rights Hero. On the 20 th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November,the children will reveal their chosen prize laureate.
Since the year 2000 AD, the World's Children Prize has awarded children's prestigious prizes for outstanding efforts for the rights of the child. The prize money has contributed to giving tens of thousands of the world's most vulnerable children a better life. So, far 27 prize laureates have received prizes and have become role models for all children all over the world. Thirteen of these are candidates in the children's next Global Vote, which will determine their Decade Child Right's Hero.
World's largest right's- based educational program .
The WCPRC is the world's largest educational programme for young people on the right's of the child, democracy, the environment and global friendship. The WCPRC programme empowers children, giving them hope for the future and the chance to demand respect for their rights. It is carried out in cooperation with more than 50,000 teachers, as well as almost 500 organizations, departments of education and youth media projects.
Millions of vulnerable children participate
Millions of children learn about their rights and democracy through the World's Children's Prize. They include former child soldiers, debt slaves and street children. Children who have lost their parents to AIDS, genocide or in the Asian tsunami, and children who live in dictatorships, have also found about their rights through the World's Children's Prize. The prize magazine, The Globe, and the website www.wordchildren'sprize.org, is produced in 11 languages, including Arabic and Farsi(Persian).
Maiti Nepal urges children all around the globe to cast their vote independently in favour of their favourite hero.
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