Over the past years SOS Children's Villages has been involved in various processes, both national and international, aimed at taking action for those children who are without parental care or who run the risk of losing it.
More... Children have the right to be listened to and to participate in all the decisions affecting them. This is what the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child says. Read how SOS Children's Villages included children and what the children have to say to us. More... To give children a voice in all possible committees and to establish firm requirements so that children can have better living conditions is one way of giving children access to their rights. Another way is to actually put the ball in their court, so that they are not only seen as "victims" who depend on the help of adults, but that they rather see themselves as social actors who have a say, are allowed to set limits, have a right to protection and can ask for help.
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