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EveryChild launches a report to MPs at the Houses of Lords

21 Jul 2010

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Last Tuesday EveryChild and a coalition of 8 other children’s charities launched a report at the House of Lords to the All Parliamentary Group on Street Children and representatives from other NGOs. The panel of speakers included Anna Feuchtwang, Chief Executive of EveryChild, Nigel Cantwell, international child protection expert, and Emily Delap, the report author and Global Policy Advisor at EveryChild.

In the report, ‘Protect for the Future’, the charities – led by EveryChild and including ChildHope, Consortium for Street Children, The International Children’s Trust, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Railway Children, Retrak, Save the Children and War Child – call on world leaders to include the right to care and protection alongside the right to survival, health and education in their efforts to improve the lives of millions of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged children.

The report was launched to MPs just two months before the UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals in September, which will discuss progress towards the goals of alleviating child poverty, increasing access to education, improving maternal and child health, and reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS by 2015. The Observer and The Guardian covered the launch which will help our message reach more people in power by the time of the summit.

> Read the Guardian article

> Anna Feuchtwang's blog about the report and launch

The report calls on the Department for International Development (DfID) and other agencies to invest more in protecting children whilst adhering to the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children. DfID and other agencies should design social protection schemes that seek to reduce poverty in the most vulnerable households and are sensitive to children’s care and protection.

Contact us: ceo@everychild.org.uk