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Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 18, No. 2, 537-542 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0956247806070977
© 2006 International Institute for Environment and Development

The missing population at the 2006 World Urban Forum

Louise Chawla

College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Box 314, Boulder, CO 80309-0314, USA, louise.chawla{at}colorado.edu

Sheridan Bartlett

Children’s environments Research Group at City University of New York, USA and the Human Settlements programme at IIED, sheridan.bartlett{at}gmail.com

David Driskell

Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, USA, david.driskell{at}cornell.edu

Roger Hart

Graduate Center and the Children's Environments Research Group, City University of New York, USA, rhart{at}gc.cuny.edu

Gabriella Olofsson

Save the Children Head Office, Stockholm, Sweden, gabriella.olofsson{at}rb.se

This comment discusses the lack of attention given to children at the June 2006 World Urban Forum in Vancouver. Although progress was made in terms of the recognition given to youth at this Forum, only two out of 162 events focused on the concerns of children under the age of 15 - a group that constitutes almost one-third of the world’s population. This failure is not unique to this Forum, but reflects a broader failure to integrate attention to the priorities and involvement of children within development practice. The paper explains why this failure is significant, not only for children themselves but also for the successful implementation of the Forum’s more general concern with "urban sustainability".

Key Words: children • environmental rights • urban sustainability


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