Oct. 11 marked the second annual International Day of the Girl Child, a movement working tirelessly toward achieving equality between the sexes.
It is held in support of Every Woman Every Child, a movement spearheaded by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that aims to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015.
World Day of Prayer and Action for Children is a movement that harnesses the powerful role religious communities can play in keeping children safer by promoting affirmative measures such as birth registration and positive parenting, and discouraging potentially harmful actions such as child marriage.
I choose not to take advice on what's most natural and therefore best for me and my children from a movement that prefers me barefoot making an all-natural from-scratch meal, strapped to a nursing baby that I birthed in agony so I can prove my all-natural worth.
A leading autism advocacy group is advising parents to vaccinate their children, as a movement by caretakers who oppose the common practice continues to stir up controversy nationwide.
For together we have the power and the resources to mobilise a global movement for children - a movement that will put the world on a path to end the poverty, ill health, violence and discrimination that needlessly blights and destroys so many young lives.
Just as Human Rights Watch led the human rights community as it arose, it is now the poster child for a movement that has become a spear-carrier for the "exceptionalist" belief that the west has a providential right to intervene wherever in the world it wishes.
Bashir and I talked through a sample exercise during the "Choreography" portion of a typical class where we engage in a group exercise whereby each child contributes a movement that has to be sufficiently different from their peer, and then we build a phrase with all of these movements.
Less focus on "how smart is this child" to "how is this child smart" is a movement in the right direction that recognizes the only proven law in psychology -- the law of individual differences (i.e., there is no one-size-fits all learning method).
Their efforts launched a global movement, one dedicated to the universal realisation of child rights -- a movement based on the sure and certain conviction that children not only have a right to a better future -- but that, in a quite literal sense, they are the future.
It is also more difficult to cheat the balance board used in the intervention than the remote control, and even if the child is executing a movement incorrectly, playing the game still needs advanced coordination with the timing of the movements.
