Arab Conference on Children's Rights Culture winds up in Tunis

An Arab conference on the culture of children's rights, held here this March 12-14, adopted several recommendations calling Arab states to devise a coherent strategy to promote the culture of children's rights.

The conference called for the consolidation of the role of educational, social, legal and information institutions as well as the role of the civil society in upholding these rights.

Sponsored by the Arab human rights institute and the UNICEF regional bureau in Amman, the encounter also urged decision makers to adapt schools syllabi to the values and principles stipulated in the U.N convention on children's rights and to include these principles in various training programs.

Participants from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia deemed it necessary to develop strategies and special programs to promote children's rights and to assist organizations dealing with childhood.

They also underscored the important role of information means in disseminating the culture of children's rights and called for improving audio-visual programs destined to children and to involve children in the elaboration and broadcasting of these programs.

The conference stressed the need to grant a special attention to disabled children to favor their social integration.