Save the Children launches global right protection campaign today

Save the Children, a leading child rights promoting organisation, is set to launch a campaign today with the fervent call for ensuring health, education and protection for all children, particularly targeting those who have not been able to benefit from development outcomes.

The global campaign styled “Every Last Child” will begin in the capital as part of the global initiatives of Save the Children to create a movement to overcome the barriers that continue to leave children behind.

It is a three-year global campaign focused on excluded children.

We want to focus on children in hard to reach and remote rural areas and in urban slums, a senior official of Save the Children Bangladesh told the news agency yesterday.

Under the campaign with the slogan “no one will be left behind”, Save the Children will urge the government to ensure health services, quality primary education and protection of children from violence.

The campaign will also urge the government to commit to a set of national guarantees or a “minimum social floor” for the deprived children to realise their rights to health, education, physical and social protection.

“In Bangladesh, we have made amazing progress over the last decade as more children than ever before survive their early years and are able to read and write. But many children still have been left behind because they live in remote rural areas or urban slums,” the official said.

To address those children, the campaign focuses on three measures - fair finance, equal treatment and accountability.

The campaign will also urge the government to ensure that the budget making process will include the “Every last child” principle in resource allocations.

Considering that the overall realisation of the child rights in Bangladesh is hampered by slow implementation of policies, the campaign will call for equal treatment for all children as well as establishing accountability of service providers to children.