Child Rights Center, in collaboration with Save the Children and the five groups of children and youth from Belgrade, Uzice, Nis, Zrenjanin and Vrbas marked 23 years since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. By conducting various local activities groups of children and youth wanted to draw attention of the public to all the obligations that we as a society took towards children, as well as to draw attention to the problems children and young people face.
On that day in one of Belgrade’s high schools established is the club for gifted students, designed for intensive work with students particularly interested in learning, science and artistic creativity. The establishment of this club is the result of local action initiated by the members of DX Club, a group of children and youth at the Child Rights Centre, who saw this action as their answer to the problem of insufficient capacity of the education system for dealing with children who show special interests. On that day marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 10 years of group and 15th anniversary of the Child Rights Centre members of the DX also organized an action under the slogan “It’s important to me to hear me.” With dissemination of promotional material, attention was drawn to the participants of the gathering to the importance of participation of children and youth.
In addition, on the date of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 years since the founding of the Child Rights Centre and 10 years of youth group DX – Children’s informative cultural service was marked in Belgrade. Then, a posthumous Lifetime Achievement thanks was dedicated to the late judge Nikola Milosevic, one of the inspirational workers in the field of juvenile justice and child rights in general.
