Countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) with the tradition of integrated care and education emphasise child's development and well being.
Alongside learning about rights, the school also emphasises children's responsibilities.
Emphasising children's learning in addition to well-known child development perspectives is a distinct change for many in the field of early childhood education in Australia.
They emphasised children's right to expression and opportunities to grow to their full potential through access to basic health, quality education and recreation.
As UNICEF emphasises, "children's rights are not special rights, but rather the fundamental rights inherent to the human dignity of all people".
The strategies correctly emphasised child rights programming framework, but did not mention the need to monitor the situation and the progress towards universal coverage of all rights.
In both West Timor and the project for other conflict areas, the activities focused on strengthening children's support networks, and emphasised child resiliency, which are ethical, effective and efficient ways to promote children's healing.
Its teachers and administrators used UNICEF and Ministry of Education-supported "Child-Friendly Schools" concepts emphasising child participation, health and safety awareness, and community involvement as they worked with the students and their exhibition on the environment.
This view would emphasise skills children should master before entry into primary school (Belgium, Italy, UK and the US).
I believe that the Johannesburg Summit must emphasise this child-centred development paradigm, and stress that development cannot be sustainable anywhere unless children are protected from vulnerability everywhere, and unless their rights to a basic education of good quality, nutrition, health, water and sanitation are fulfilled.
