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A
suffrage one would be Rose Pengelly who at 15 led colleagues out top strike and
was one of Sylvia Pankhurst’s East End Suffragttes – Katherine Connelly
references her here:
http://www.counterfire.org/history/17582-sylvia-pankhurst-s-christmas-parties-for-peace
And agreed
– this is really interesting and useful thread. Not least as I’m running a
family workshop as part of our Welfare State ex on Children’s demands – a new
children’s charter (following the 1908 one).
Thanks!
Debbie
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Subject: Re: Children as
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The Glasgow
Girls, who fought to end the detention of children in immigration cases, are a
good example: http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/news_and_events/get_involved_in_arts_events/glasgow_girls
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Children as campaigners
Hello
Stories of children and young people taking action on behalf
of future generations, aware of the catastrophic impacts of climate change and
industrial ecocide are some of the most inspiring stories for me. For example,
Felix Finkbeiner, who is on track to planting a trillion
trees
Boyan Slat who invented solar-powered booms to clean up ocean
plastic
And, children suing Governments:
1.
Supported
by GLAN, a group of Portuguese children are taking a major climate change case
to the European Court of Human Rights. In June 2017 these children watched their
district burn as a result of the worst forest fires in their country's history.
Taking the case against all of the major emitters which have signed up to the
European Convention on Human Rights. Crowd funding campaign, have reached £20k
but have now set a stretch target of £100,000.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/climate-change-echr/
2.
Juliana
vs US Government, set to go to trial this month. 21 young people in Oregon, US.
National Association of Manufacturers, the American Fuel and Petrochemical
Manufacturers, and the American Petroleum Institute intervened and joined the
Government as defendants against the children.
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/9efd2-youthamendedcomplaintagainstus.pdf
3.
In 2012
CYP in Uganda sued the state for failing to comply with international
climate-change agreements.
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/cee5b-filedugandacomplaint.pdf
4.
In 2015,
Dutch CYP won Urgenda Foundation v. The State of the Netherlands
https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/cigi_paper_79.pdf
5.
In 2016,
a seven-year-old girl’s climate-change suit against Pakistan has been allowed to
proceed over state objections.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1133023/seven-year-old-girl-takes-federal-sindh-governments/
6.
In March
2017, an Indian child sued authorities for ignoring environmental
regulations.
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/d5131-2017-03-30indiaclimatecasepr.pdf
I hope
that all helps - if it is a bit biased towards the environment. But our work on
the Future Views project consulting with young people across the South East/East
Anglia/Kent shows that this is one of the overwhelming concerns for young
people. https://futureviewstoolkit.com/
Best
wishes
Bridget
McKenzie
On 8 February 2018 at 10:34, Travis, Laura <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello
We have recently
opened our exhibition called Changing Lives: 200 Years of People and Protest in
Sheffield. We are running a half term event that will look at how children have
campaigned for and achieved change. We know that there must be many stories of
children and young people campaigners but can’t find many apart from Malala
Yousafzai and Lucy Gavaghan who campaigned to stop Tesco selling caged eggs.
Please help us out and
send us your inspiring examples and stories of young people and children
campaigning for change!
Thanks
Laura
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