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"Mr President, I welcome the opportunity to put children and young people’s rights to the front of the EU agenda. A lot has changed since the original UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, both for better and worse, and I am happy that the resolution takes note of the new challenges facing children and young people today.
We must put young people at the heart of policy and encourage their involvement in the decision-making process. We must encourage young adults to vote and make their voice heard, and use their expertise to help to educate, to inform and to make, for example, the internet a safer place.
A Spotlight programme recently exposed Facebook photos of schoolchildren in the North of Ireland being exploited. We need to empower young children and young people to preserve their internet integrity, and we need to ensure their privacy is protected. We must continue to push children’s rights globally and ensure all children have the right to a childhood free from war and all the atrocities that accompany it, and I am mindful of the children in Palestine whom we spoke about here earlier today.
Within the EU we must put a renewed focus on children and young people, as many of them have paid the awful price for the reckless bankers who created the economic crisis and the subsequent relentless austerity policies that followed, and the lack of investment in our young people, our tomorrow’s world, is absolutely appalling."@en1
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