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Newsletter of the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA
Funded by: Olof Palmes International Center
This Electronic Newsletter is prepared by the Information
and Research Centre for Children's Rights in Albania - IRCCRA.
More than 400 Albanian and Kosovan, foreign NGO's, international organisations
and agencies, state bodies, donors, individuals, and other partners
of CRCA receive this Electronic Newsletter. If you would like to publish
your news, reports, announcements, invitations, or other documents
concerning children and children's rights, please contact with IRCCRA.
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The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA
is:
- Associate Member of DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
- DCI
- Founding Member of SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN CHILD RIGHTS ACTION NETWORK
- SEECRAN
- Founding Member of EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALTIC NETWORK
OF NGO's ON MONITORING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
- Founding Member of ALBANIAN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - ACRN
- Member of the BALKAN HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK - BHRN
IN THIS ISSUE:
- ALBANIA STARTS THE PREPARATIONS FOR GLOBAL CAMPAIGN
"END TO EDUCATE POVERTY"
- WORLD BANK ALBANIA ESSAY COMPETITION "WHY SHOULD
I STAY IN ALBANIA"
- EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE REGION
- Overview of the Electronic Newsletter
- ALBANIA STARTS THE PREPARATIONS FOR GLOBAL CAMPAIGN "END TO
EDUCATE POVERTY"
Tirana 11 April 2005 - NGO's in Albania started yesterday their
preparations for the Action Week "Educate to End Poverty",
as part of the preparations of the campaign that take place globally
between 24-30 April. The activities in Albania are leaded by the Children's
Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA, the major child rights organisation
in the country. Compare to other years, this year the campaign has
raised interest of many other child rights organisation in the country.
In a coordination meeting held yesterday by CRCA, and attended by
some of the largest NGO's working in Albania for children, the Director
of CRCA stated "If we compare this year campaign with the previous
years, I see that the interest to come together and organise joint
activities under the same slogan, has increased. This shows once more
how much we all evaluate education as an important aspect to eradicate
poverty and give young people a chance to contribute to themselves
and to Albania."
The meeting which was attended by representatives of CRCA, IRCCRA,
World Vision, International Social Services and Albanian Children's
Alliance, agreed for a joint list of activities that will take during
the Action week. Among the major activities to take place will be:
1. Mailing materials (leaflet, posters) to Schools, teachers and
children in Albania.
2. Mailing materials (leaflet, posters) to NGO's and Government in
Albania.
3. Preparation of Statement "Educate to End Poverty" and
issue to a press conference.
4. Event "Send a Friend to School" .
5. Open LETTER send to 140 MP's of the Albanian Parliament "GET
BACK TO SCHOOL", where all the parliamentarians will be asked
to get back to any school which is in their constituency and report
to the media on what they have achieved during that day.
6. SEND MY FRIEND TO THE PRESIDENT.
7. Preparation and Publication of POSTER in national language (Albanian).
The poster will be published in 2000 copies and costs of the publication
will be shared among all partners.
For more info, please contact:
Ms. Alma Maksutaj
CRCA Coordinator
E-mail: crca@adanet.com.al
www.crca.org.al
- WORLD BANK ALBANIA ESSAY COMPETITION
"WHY SHOULD I STAY IN ALBANIA"
The World Bank Office in Tirana invites you to participate
in an Essay Competition by responding to the two following questions:
1- What are the biggest challenges that you face in your daily life?
2- What ideas, solution would you propose to build a future for yourself
in Albania?
“Why I should stay in Albania”
Albanians encounter many challenges in seeking to build a future for
themselves and for their country. To learn what these challenges mean
to you, to understand how you deal with them and to enlist your ideas
in finding solutions utilizing the opportunities for Albania, the
World Bank Office in Tirana invites you to participate in an Essay
Competition.
Ø Calendar
8 April 2005 Launch of the Essay Competition
12 April 2005 Submission accepted
30 May 2005 Deadline for submissions
5 June 2005 Announcement of finalists
June 2005 Jury selects winners
15 June 2005 Announcement of winners
Ø Awards
First place: $250
Second place: $150
Third place: $100
Ø Submission
You can submit your essay to: inforegistry@worldbank.org
or at the Public Information Center, Faculty of Economics, Tirana
University
Ø Rules
* Participants must be below 25 years of age.
* The deadline for submission is 30 May 2005
* Each participant can only submit one essay
* Essay should not be longer than 6 pages
* Essays can be submitted in English or Albanian
* Each essay must be accompanied by an abstract (max. one page). The
abstract will be used by the jury to make a pre-selection
* Finalists will be announced 15 June 2005
- EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM
THE REGION
International Conference National Youth Policies -
Success or Failure in South Eastern Europe?
Call for applicants: participants and workshop leaders
May 24 - 29 2005; Timisoara, Romania
Application deadline: April 21, 2005
The Regional Youth Center for Information and Documentation in South
East Europe - RYCID
with the support of Council of Europe present the international conference
National Youth Policies - Success or Failure in South Eastern Europe?;
dedicated to all you Youth activists that want to improve the process
of designing and implementing National Youth Policies across South
Eastern Europe.
The conference is meant to be the perfect framework to achieve this
by analysing, evaluating and generating solutions for the present
situation (from both NGOs, governmental organisations and international
experts point of view).
The taskforce that developed the concept of the conference, its content
and programme includes experts in the NYP field at national and regional
level, but also experts actively involved in the policy making at
European level. They will present the participants with analysis and
evaluations regarding all the phases of the designing and implementing
National Youth Policies process (consultations, designing and implementation).
All costs with visa, travel, accommodation & meals are covered
by the organisers
For more information and application please visit http://www.see-rycid.org/conference.php
and http://www.see-rycid.org/application.php ; or a workshop leader
http://www.see-rycid.org/applicationfaci.php
The organiser is looking for participants:
- With real and long term interest on the topic of national/local
youth policies;
- Strongly motivated to co-operate and exchange experience regarding
NYP development and implementation process;
- Committed to follow-up & multiply the outcomes of the conference;
- With a certain experience and vision on the topic
- Creative, energetic, proactive, flexible, positive.
And workshop leaders with:
- Very good English skills (speaking & writing);
- Available to arrive in Timisoara on the 21st of May and stay till
the 29th of May;
- With a certain experience in moderating international groups;
- Summarising & debriefing skills;
- Creative, energetic, proactive, flexible, positive.
For any questions that you might have related to the conference or
for any troubleshoots you might encounter accessing the information
please contact the organiser at: office@youthcenter.ro .
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World Day Against Child Abuse: NGO Coalition <Call for Applications>
Application deadline: 1 June 2005
The Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) is happy to announce that
more than 480 organisations from over 90 countries joined the international
coalition and marked the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse,
on 19 November in 2004 with activities and events. The list of coalition
organisations is published at http://www.woman.ch and a global impact
report 2004 is in preparation.
The main purpose of the NGO Coalition is to contribute to the creation
of a culture of prevention of child abuse and form a global partnership
network to raise awareness, mobilise public opinion and action, and
disseminate prevention programmes. To join the Coalition, members
commit to mark the Day with local and national events and activities;
mention the Day in their publications and on their websites; distribute
posters, educational programmes and information; create partnerships
with local organisations working for the promotion and protection
of the rights of the child, alert the press and radio stations, inform
local authorities of the existence of the Day and planned activities,
and lobby governments for official proclamation of the Day as a National
Day.
Organisations that wish to join the 2005 coalition to mark the World
Day (or those wishing to renew their membership) should visit the
WWSF website at http://www.woman.ch/children/1-register.asp . Organisations'
names will then be printed on the global poster 2005 and published
on the Internet.
For more information, contact:
Laure Maitrejean, Children's Section Co-ordinator
WWSF Women's World Summit Foundation
Email: wdpca@wwsf.ch
Website: http://www.woman.ch
Info source:
South East European Child Rights Action Network
SEECRANews 07 (V)
April 11, 2005
Overview of Electronic Newsletter
This Electronic Newsletter is prepared by the Information
and Research Centre for Children's Rights in Albania - IRCCRA.
More than 400 Albanian and Kosovan, foreign NGO's, international organisations
and agencies, state bodies, donors, individuals, and other partners
of CRCA - IRCCRA receive this Electronic Newsletter. If you would
like to publish your news, reports, announcements, invitations, or
other documents concerning children and children's rights, please
contact with IRCCRA.
If you wish to subscribe or un-subscribe from the mailing list please
e-mail to: irccra@adanet.com.al
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The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania - CRCA is:
- Associate Member of DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL - DCI
- Founding Member of SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN CHILD RIGHTS ACTION NETWORK
- SEECRAN
- Founding Member of EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN & BALTIC NETWORK
OF NGO's ON MONITORING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
- Founding Member of ALBANIAN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS NETWORK - ACRN
- Member of the BALKAN HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK - BHRN
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