Promoting participation in a world of rights. The participation of children and young people and civil society in the regional process towards the Special Session for Children

This document systematizes the local and national participation levels of civil society, including the wide-ranging engagement of children and young people in the regional process towards the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children (2002), at which the nations of the world committed themselves to a series of goals to improve the situation of children and young people. The Latin American process has contributed to strengthen the region’s follow up tasks regarding the Convention of the Rights of Child.