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Children have a right to actively participate in decisions, processes, programmes and policies that affects their lives. Being able to
participate further helps children to also realise other rights such as access to health care. This participation of children depends
on the state and all organisations working with children and families to protect, respect and promote the rights of all children.
This obligation is also stated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The National Children's Manifesto urges government and several stakeholders, to translate the children’s rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic South Africa into a living reality. The manifesto , which was written by children, touches on several issues including child protection, education and health.

The aim of the Child Safeguarding Policy is to engender an organisational environment in which all members of staff and representatives are committed to the safeguarding of children and their rights.

Building a better world for and with children

Poverty, conflict and discrimination against girls are putting more than 1.2 billion children – over half of children worldwide – at risk for an early end to their childhood. Many of these at-risk children live in countries facing two or three of these grave threats at the same time. In fact, 153 million children are at extreme risk of missing out on childhood because they live in countries characterized by all three threats.

It is possible to break the cycle of poverty and inequality by making sure that all children, particularly the most marginalised, access quality services that provide a pathway out of poverty towards social equality and prosperity.

For at least 700 million children worldwide – and perhaps hundreds of millions more – childhood has ended too soon. The major reasons included poor health, conflict, extreme violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, malnutrition, exclusion from education and child labor.

The Children’s Complementary Report from South Africa is directed to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) in response to South Africa’s Second Country Report to the ACERWC regarding the implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

The Children’s Complementary Report from South Africa is directed to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) in response to the South African government’s Secondary Country Report to the ACERWC regarding the implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.