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between parents and children and adopting dialogue as a means of communication
and problem-solving;
• To establish parliaments and national institutions that allow for the participation of
children as a preliminary step and incentive for their involvement as members in the
Arab Children‘s Parliament; to draft a document with guiding principles for their
participation in line with international standards;
• To develop guiding principles as a reference for professional and ethical media
coverage of child-related issues; to provide and publish documents and literature
related to the media and child rights issues; to organize an annual award recognizing
media serving the best interests of the child; to consider the possibility of
establishing a mechanism to monitor the impact of media on children in cooperation
with Arab authorities concerned with childhood that would be in charge of assessing
media products; to follow up the application of charters and principles related to
media and the rights of the child; and to develop quality standards for children‘s
programmes and allocating funds for the production of high quality Arabic media
programmes for children that enhance the values of Arab civilization;
• To establish national observatories to follow up media programmes directed to
children; to encourage the participation of civil society organizations in this field
and develop continuous training and rehabilitation plans for staff working in
development communication as well as educational programmes for children and
parents.
In conclusion, we the participants in the Fourth Arab High-Level Conference for the Rights
of the Child‖ pledge to devote our energy and resources to honour our commitments, with
the determination and perseverance that is required by the continuous challenges we face,
to achieve the goals of the Second Arab Plan for Childhood, the Millennium Development
Goals and the goals of ―A World Fit for Children‖. We pledge, also, to intensify our efforts
and invest our capabilities to make the present Conference an additional contribution to the
structure of joint Arab social efforts in the field of childhood in the Arab World.
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