CHILDREN’S VOICES CRITICAL FOR THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, SAYS UNICEF STUDY

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CHILDREN'S VOICES CRITICAL FOR THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, SAYS UNICEF
STUDYNew York, Jun 24 2013 2:00PMChildren's issues as well as their
voices and participation will be crucial to achieve sustainable
development, says a
<"http://www.unicef.org/parmo/files/SD_children_FINAL(1).pdf">paper
released today by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which
stresses that investing in the well-being of the world's youth is
essential to make progress on the post-2015 development agenda.

"Children and young people are the makers of a future sustainable
world, and, measures of their progress will also be the markers of
that world," <"http://www.unicef.org/media/media_69712.html">said
UNICEF's Senior Adviser on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Richard
Morgan.

"Their learning, their nutritional growth, their safety and
confidence, their creativity and ideas – underpinned by freedom from
fear, as well as freedom from want – will be the markers of how
decisively we are moving to a sustainable future for all."

According to UNICEF, children represent approximately one-third of the
world's population, and their rights and participation as part of a
sustainable future are already guided by an extensive range of
international conventions, treaties, and other legal instruments –
including the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In the position paper, UNICEF makes a direct link between what needs
to be done for children today – particularly those most disadvantaged
– and how this will affect the future of their countries.

The agency also outlines three key messages for achieving a world fit
for children, which consist of recognizing that children can be a
major drivers of sustainable development, children have the most to
gain and the most to lose from success or failure of sustainable
development measures, and children can and should be major
participants in and contributors to a healthy, sustainable planet.

For example, preventing stunting – which currently affects come 165
million children under five – would help break the cycle of poverty
and increase a country's gross domestic product (GDP) by at least two
to three per cent every year, and save billions of dollars in
healthcare costs and lost productivity.

Reducing children's exposure to violence would also lessen their risk
of transitioning into drug abuse, criminal, violent and other
dangerous behaviours later in adolescence and in adult life. In
addition, children are more vulnerable to environmental pollution as
their bodies and brains are still developing, which should encourage
countries to implement environmentally-friendly measures.

"The good news is that investing in children delivers big pay offs –
for them, for their societies, and for the planet," UNICEF said in a
news release. "For example, a good quality education has major
intergenerational impacts. A well-educated girl is likely to have
greater personal earnings potential, be more likely to delay marriage
and pregnancy and be more likely to access health service support,
leading to lower rates of maternal mortality. Educated women tend to
have fewer, healthier and more educated children."

The paper also argues that empowering children and young people is
important so they can be active participants and become effective
guardians of a sustainable development world.Jun 24 2013 2:00PM
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