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Youth Participation Case Study

In November 2008 an ECPAT UK youth delegate attended the World Congress III against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, held in Brazil.

The ECPAT UK youth delegate was one of 300 children from around the world who participated in many activities before, during and after the Congress. The young people discussed the issues they felt were important and created recommendations for the Congress outcome document The Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents. 

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Click here to read the ECPAT UK newsletter Connect to Protect Spring 2009, a special issue on Youth Participation Young People - Seen and Heard

 

Click here for information on the ECPAT International Child and Youth Participation Programme

 
 

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For Young People

This section outlines the various ways in which young people can get involved with our campaigns and take action against child trafficking.

ECPAT UK believes that childrenŐs voices need to be heard and we encourage youth involvement in all aspects of our work including campaigns and lobbying decision makers.

For many years ECPAT UK has worked with partner organisations in the UK to enable young people to campaign against commercial sexual exploitation and to increase service provision and support child victims of trafficking. ECPAT UK is committed to child and youth participation and to building links with youth networks.

If you would like to know more about how you can get involved in ECPAT UK campaigns please click here.

You can join our Facebook group and follow us on Twitter by clicking on the icons on the left hand side of the page.

Also if you have any ideas on how we can involve children and young people in our work, please contact info@ecpat.org.uk.

 

For Teachers

ECPAT UK and World Vision UK have developed session plans and materials specifically for schools.

The sessions provided on this page were designed with the citizenship curriculum in mind. The activities provide a good opportunity for children and young people to use and further develop their knowledge of children’s rights by looking specifically into the issues facing child victims of trafficking in the UK and the violation of their rights caused by the actions of their traffickers but also by the lack of a supportive infrastructure in the UK.

The sessions will allow children to make an informed decision about whether to support the Three Small Steps campaign calls and we would ask participating schools to encourage children to send letters to their MPs when working on the last campaign related session.

Please let us know if you decide to use any of the sessions in your school by writing to info@ecpat.org.uk.

Assembly Plan: Introduces the subject of child trafficking to enable pupils to consider the rights violations involved.

Lesson Plan: This lesson builds on the knowledge and themes from the Assembly Plan. Ideally, this lesson should take place in the same or in an adjacent week as the school assembly.

Child Trafficking Quiz: Use this quiz to introduce the theme of child trafficking. You could use it as a stand alone activity before or after the Assembly and the Lesson Plans.

ChildrenŐs Rights Activity: Pupils will find out which rights of child victims of trafficking are violated by looking into case studies.

 

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