C’est avec une immense fierté que nous partageons avec vous la nouvelle : le Concerned for Working Children, qui appuie les enfants travailleurs en Inde depuis plus de trente ans, a été nommé avec Save the Children et UNICEF pour le prix Nobel de la Paix 2012 !!

C’est une immense reconnaissance pour leur travail de qualité et leur lutte quotidienne aux cotés des enfants pour rendre réelle et concrète la participation de ces derniers à la société.

Mais c’est aussi une immense reconnaissance pour les enfants, qui ne sont pas seulement la source d’inspiration, mais bien le moteur de cette action ! Cette nomination est leur nomination !

Vous pouvez voir ici la vidéo de l’annonce de la nomination au Prix Nobel de la Paix faite par Ms. Linda Hofstad Helleland, Membre du Parlement de la Norvège : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTTi4-CMcds

Ainsi qu’une interview de Kavita Ratna, directrice des communications du CWC et membre d’honneur de la Voix des Enfants Actifs : http://vimeo.com/37062520

Et nous souhaitons partager aussi un message des directeurs du CWC :

” The credit goes to our primary constituency and partners – working children – and the many battles they have fought in numerous forums at home and around the world for their voices to be heard. Their struggle has always been a peaceful one and now one of patience as they continue their crusade in an environment that not only does not recognise them as workers, but has criminalised their work.

We have a long way to go and so much more needs to be done. Children’s democratic participation and their right to determine the course of their lives – the present and future – by transforming the past and making choices is barely recognised in the letter. In practice it is largely believed that using compulsion to make children ‘participate’ in services that are provided – be it health care or education – without allowing children to determine the nature and quality of these services, is a fulfilment of children’s rights. We, adults by and large, still think that we know what is best for children and that children don’t.

We, as an organisation have always celebrated small victories, but this is a huge leap for the cause. It is a recognition of Children’s’ Right to Participation, one of the most fundamental rights enabling an individual to determine the path of their existence.

We are a small organisation and yet we have managed to impact on child rights policy and programming both locally and globally, bringing the right to children’s participation and self-determination centre stage. This nomination is in itself a great honor.”

Damodar Acharya – Executive Director

Nandana Reddy – Director Development

Kavita Ratna – Director Communication