Printed from the ACYA (Action for Children & Youth Aotearoa) web site on Saturday, 11 September 2010 7:49:50 a.m..

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ACYA is a coalition of non-governmental organizations, families and individuals whose purpose is to promote the well-being of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand through:

  1. education and advocacy on the rights of children and young people,
  2. encouraging the Government to act on the recommendations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The text for the Convention can be found at http://www.occ.org.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/3312/OCC_UNCROC_in_English_and_Te_Reo_Maori.pdf

 

We invite you to join us on

 

Friday 17 September 2010

 

6.30pm – 8.30pm

 

for the

 

Annual General Meeting of

 

Action for Children & Youth Aotearoa Inc. 

 

 

St Barnabas Church Hall,

 

1 Bellevue Road, Mt Eden

 

6.30pm – 8.30pm Light refreshments from 6.00pm

 

when we will

 

Launch the ACYA NGO Report

 

Children and Youth in Aotearoa 2010

 

submitted to

 

Committee on Rights of the Child in July 2010

 

 

 

and offer our appreciation for the long years of service to ACYA and the

 

advancement of children's rights in NZ to

 

 Alison Blaiklock as she steps down after 15 years as Chairperson and

 

Peter Shuttleworth, on his retirement from the committee, for the many roles he has played as

 

treasurer, advocacy co-ordinator, administrator, webmaster and project manager

 

 

AGM Agenda

  • Confirmation of AGM Minutes 2009
  • Chairperson’s Report
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Amendment to Constitution
  • Election of Officers
  • Appreciations
  • Launch of Children and Youth in Aotearoa 2010
  • General business

 Membership subscriptions for 2010-2011 are due: Individuals $15 organisations $35

 

Please pay these at the meeting.

Printed copies of the Report and CD-ROM of Report with working papers will be

 

 available free to members, non-members price $15.  

 


REPORT TO UNITED NATIONS 
Thanks to support from the many people who are helping us,and to stirling work by Alison Blaiklock and John Hancock the planning team has sent the report to Geneva. to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Our Report is called "Children and Youth in Aotearoa 2010" and will be launched at our Annual General Meeting

The Government report is now at:
http://www.myd.govt.nz/working-with-young-people/uncroc/

 

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