ANKARA – The activity of the Gündem Çocuk (Agenda: Child) Association has been suspended by Turkey’s Interior Ministry and the building of the association has been sealed. The members of the association said, “You can seal the buildings, never the people. We will continue to build a better world for the children.”
 
Gündem Çocuk (Agenda: child) Association, which determines and monitors the violations of children’s rights, is among the 370 associations whose activities have been suspended by the Interior Ministry. Following the closure decision, the office of the association was sealed. In the first statement, the members of the association said, “You can seal the buildings, never the people. We will continue to build a better world for the children.”
 
12-year history of the Gündem Çocuk;
 
Since 2005, The Agenda: Child Association has carried out their works on the basis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child with the motto, “A better world for children”. Dozens of volunteers from different professional groups, from sociologists to psychologists, from jurists to educators, from architects to children and social development specialists, have worked for the association.
 
The reports prepared by the association are as follows;
 
• Children's Rights Academy
• The Child's Right to Life Report in Turkey
• Discrimination Report for Children in Turkey
• Report on Combating Child Labor in Turkey
• Commercial Sexual Exploitation for Children Final Project
• Physical Security Project for Schools
• Summer Academy for Children
• Eksi18 Children's Newspaper
• Law Clinic work on child abuse
• Follow-up of sexual abuse cases where children are victims
• Following of the trial of killed Lütfullah Tajik
• Advisory service for children and their families