Today I talked on Lesotho TV where I shared my experience at @HLPF 2019 to all Basotho. @UN@WorldVisionUSA@PatricioCuevasP@mariosteph9@ArelysBG I talked about empowering women and ending violence against children. I really enjoyed it and I wish to this this more often.
“The one thing I would like everyone and governments to do is listen to children’s voices. [...] To my fellow children, I encourage you to speak your mind, get involved in positive activities for change, and never be afraid.“ Roslinda, 14, young leader https://t.co/Vi0h6sglR3
One of the recurrent questions from child delegates who attended #HLPF was when & how children's views will be part of global debate. Henrietta Fore @unicefchief says that their views are critical to ensure equality & my view is that without their voices our work is incomplete
Discussing with Mikiko Otani, member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, that inequality in participation is not based on lack of strategies/methodologies but rooted in the lack of understanding of adults of this fundamental right #HLPF@WorldVision@ChildRightsCnct
📌 #HLPF2019#VNRsLatam2019#VNRGuyana 🇬🇾 The consultations to inform the annual budget include engagements with #women, #youth, the #elderly and the banking sector and the private sector, young entrepreneurs, to name a few in our own efforts to ensure no one is left behind.
#HLPF2019 today on its final day and end of 1st cycle. What is next - it's next priority. It needs to deliver on its mandate... Reform or Review? task is gigantic and it should do what it must.
Today @InaRoslinda talked about child participation. She stated that our voices should be heard and taken into cosideration. @mariosteph9 @Nomunda48381804 @ArelysBG@PatricioCuevasP Let us promote child participation.
Today @l_liteboho , aged 17, while preparing her speech at #HLPF19 said:"My fellow classmates who have been married experience poverty, child labour, drop out of school and sexual & emotional abuse, so we need to stop this horrific form of violence" @WorldVision#ittakesaworld
I'm outside the UN answering questions with @WorldVision let me know if you have questions about what I've been doing this week and my speeches next week
"The thing I want for other girls is for their dreams to come true. I hope they don't give up & that they fight to make their dreams come true," says 10-year-old Raja from Iraq. Help girls like Raja fight for their future: https://t.co/qActfrRjrW. #ProtectChildhood
Today I made a speech about empowering girls #HLPF in New York. I spoke about how important is to empower girls & woman in order to make a change. My massage is stop violence against girls & women to promote peaceful society @WorldVisionEU@mariosteph9@ArelysBG@PatricioCuevasP
Very impressive speech by @l_liteboho from @WorldVision at #HLPF in New York. She said the empowerment of girls is critical to reduce inequality and to end child marriage #ittakesaworld
Great to meet friends and partners #HLPF2019 after several months of mostly virtual coordination & prep toward ensuring #SDGs become a reality for people and planet. @TAPNetwork2030#Voices4SDG16. Gathered here @WorldVisionUN