Think Centre is inviting you to come and join the Children's Day Forum! Will you share your experience on the challenges faced by children in Singapore. Share your fruitful suggestion on how to overcome some of the difficulties faced by children?
Children in Singapore are under pressure, stress and some are suffering from the consequence of being part of the "Working Poor Families." The bottom 20% of Signapore who do not receive decent wage and live in poor conditions. There is increasing teen pregnancy in the Malay and Indian communities. Problems of racial prejudices are faced by childrens in school and in the neighbourhood. There is also drug addiction, school dropouts, and young persons working in low paying jobs.
Some singapore men are going to Batam for Child sex, is that OK? Suicides death among children, young persons and adult are preventable problems, are we doing enough to prevent suicides? Children are being abused, beaten, even killed, and some others suffer from emotional problems.
Singapore: When children commit suicide
For this years Children Day Forum, Think Centre has chosen the theme:
Discrimination and challenges faced by children
from the "working poor families"
Please send a brief message if you are able to participate at the Forum:
Email thinkcentre@hotmail.com with your name and contacts
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Discrimination and challenges faced by children |
In 1995, Singapore ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Children.
Sources and Relevant Links:
Think Centre Rights of the Child: Valuing Children, Respecting Children The Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC] provides the legal framework for basic human rights that children verywhere,without discrimination, have.
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Think Centre Children's Rights: Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities?
Think Centre Children's Day Message 2004: Let our Children enjoy their Childhood
United Nation Kidsconference: Invest in Children it pays off
United Nations: Cyberschoolbus on human rights
United Nations What's going on?
Think Centre IWD, Dolls & Authorities
Think Centre: Do We Respect our Children's Rights? International Childrens' Day Message 2003
Think Centre: Student Stress & Suicide
Think Centre Children Day's Display: Fabric for the Nation 2003
Think Centre Children's Day art installation at School 2003
Think Centre Celebrate Children's Day at Speakers' Corner 2003
