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We owe it to those people suppressed and disenfranchised elsewhere around the world to make the most of our democratic right to vote, writes 29-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Sam Bayes from London, England. As revolution continues to be in the air in North Africa and the Middle-East, comparisons and look-a-likes have been sprouting in the west faster than the spring daffodils…. click though to read more

We owe it to those people suppressed and disenfranchised elsewhere around the world to make the most of our democratic right to vote, writes 29-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Sam Bayes from London, England.

As revolution continues to be in the air in North Africa and the Middle-East, comparisons and look-a-likes have been sprouting in the west faster than the spring daffodils….

click though to read more

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Governance Fit for Children

This report is part of an overarching project across five European countries and the EU institution. Save the Children has received financial support from the European Commission’s Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme to carry out the project Governance Fit for Children.The aim is to assess how far the general measures of implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have been realised at European, national and community level.

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Innocenti Report Card 9: The Children Left Behind This Report Card presents a first overview of inequalities in child well-being for 24 of the world’s richest countries. Three dimensions of inequality are examined: material well-being, education, and health. In each case and for each country, the question asked is ‘how far behind are children being allowed to fall?’ The report argues that children deserve the best possible start, that early experience can cast a long shadow, and that children are not to be held responsible for the circumstances into which they are born. In this sense the metric used - the degree of bottom-end inequality in child well-being - is a measure of the progress being made towards a fairer society. Bringing in data from the majority of OECD countries, the report attempts to show which of them are allowing children to fall behind by more than is necessary in education, health and material well-being (using the best performing countries as a minimum standard for what can be achieved). In drawing attention to the depth of disparities revealed, and in summarizing what is known about the consequences, it argues that ‘falling behind’ is a critical issue not only for millions of individual children today but for the economic and social future of their nations tomorrow.

Innocenti Report Card 9: The Children Left Behind

This Report Card presents a first overview of inequalities in child well-being for 24 of the world’s richest countries.

Three dimensions of inequality are examined: material well-being, education, and health. In each case and for each country, the question asked is ‘how far behind are children being allowed to fall?’

The report argues that children deserve the best possible start, that early experience can cast a long shadow, and that children are not to be held responsible for the circumstances into which they are born. In this sense the metric used - the degree of bottom-end inequality in child well-being - is a measure of the progress being made towards a fairer society. Bringing in data from the majority of OECD countries, the report attempts to show which of them are allowing children to fall behind by more than is necessary in education, health and material well-being (using the best performing countries as a minimum standard for what can be achieved).

In drawing attention to the depth of disparities revealed, and in summarizing what is known about the consequences, it argues that ‘falling behind’ is a critical issue not only for millions of individual children today but for the economic and social future of their nations tomorrow.

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