International Play Association (IPA World)

Our latest edition of Play Rights Magazine has just been released!! Members check your inboxes. Not a member? In the spirit of collaboration, which really was a theme for IPA World in 2024, we are asking our members to freely share this edition with their colleagues, friends and key people ... so watch your inbox or check the posts from our Ipa Members across their social media accounts!! And if you are a supporter of play, join us, and be part of this global movement and not just an observor! Robyn Monro Miller AM Sudeshna Chatterjee tam baillie Krister Svensson mike greenaway International Play Association (IPA) Scotland Play Australia - International Play Association (IPA) Australia Play Aotearoa PlayBoard NI PLAY WALES / CHWARAE CYMRU Play Scotland Playright Children's Play Association International Play Association (IPA) Scotland #play #article31

Hong Kong is this week hosting a Playful City Symposium and our a number of our Ipa Members are speaking including Sudeshna Chatterjee Marguerite Hunter Blair Mary Jeavons Tim Gill Hitoshi Shimamura and Helen Dodd Great to have organisation member Playright Children's Play Association partnering in this initiative. International Play Association (IPA World) is a proud supporter!!

World Children's Day 2024 - Secretary-General's Message, António Guterres 20 November 2024 --- On World Children’s Day, we celebrate the youngest members of our human family. But today is also a moment to recognize the enormous challenges children face in our deeply divided, tumultuous and often violent world. It is shocking that, in the 21st century, any child still goes hungry, uneducated, or without even the most basic health care. It is a stain on humanity’s conscience when children’s lives are caught in the grinding wheels of poverty, or upended by disasters or violent conflicts that are killing and maiming children. One hundred years ago, the League of Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of the Child — the foundation of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. This year’s theme reminds us that we must listen to children as they fight for their rights — and for humanity’s future. The recently adopted Pact for the Future includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. All three texts contained strong commitments to protect and support children, invest in their rights, and expand opportunities to actively participate in the decisions affecting them. Every child has the right to live in peace, health and safety. Today and every day, let’s protect and support children as they meaningfully contribute to making our world a better, brighter, more peaceful place for all people.

Launched today! The 2024 Geneva Declaration on the rights of the child. One hundred years later, a recommittment to children’s rights. But this time, you can also make a committment. Www.declaration2024.org Our President, Robyn Monro Miller was present at the event and reports “the challenge now, is to take positive action, in whatever area each of us influences, and make the committment to children’s rights a reality. We are all duty bearers when it comes to our children.”

As the sun rises on a new week in Geneva, International Play Association (IPA World) is looking forward to celebrating on Wednesday 20 November the recommitment to children’s rights with the signing in Geneva of the 2024 declaration of children’s rights, 100 years since the last. UNCRC Philip D. Jaffé Child Rights Connect Save the Children International Ville de Genève

We are pretty sure there are a lot of opportunities to look at play, incidental or planned in this area! Be part of the call for papers!

Our International Play Association (IPA World) council meeting is at 12pm Uk time today… Reps from branches across the world in one online meeting talking PLAY. On this agenda, the implementation and impact of General Comment 17. #workingtogether #globalgood #play #article31

Great to see ChristchurchNZ initiatives for making a more playful city - and in November 2026 when the Ipa Triennial conference arrives in this lovely city we know it is only going to get more playful!! Ipa Aotearoa is getting ready to welcome us!!!

Ooooo… and a lovely IPA cake as well!! Yum!! Play and cake - two four letter words we can never have enough of!! Thank you for sharing THE VENTURE (WREXHAM) LTD!!

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