UNICEF

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) is a United Nations agency that is dedicated to promoting the rights and wellbeing of children around the world. Established in 1946, UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to provide essential services and support to children, including healthcare, education, protection, and advocacy. UNICEF is also involved in emergency response efforts, such as providing aid to children affected by natural disasters or conflict.

 

The Harrowing State of Women's Rights in Lebanon – Arab Center Washington DC
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The Harrowing State of Women's Rights in Lebanon – Arab Center Washington DC

The problems facing women in Lebanon today have been further complicated by the financial, economic, and social crises that have been affecting the country since 2019. It is therefore not surprising that women were on the frontlines of the so-called Tishreen (October) Revolution in 2019, because their rights were central to these protests. The uprising…

Blue Butterfly Foundation Stands Against Human Trafficking – The New Paltz Oracle
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Blue Butterfly Foundation Stands Against Human Trafficking – The New Paltz Oracle

The Blue Butterfly Foundation helps the people of Nepal find education, shelter and other necessities. The nonprofit focuses on children that are vulnerable to the rampant human trafficking within the country. On April 24, the founder and director of the Blue Butterfly Foundation, Lauren Yanks, spoke at the Student Union Building to raise awareness about…

Serbia sees child marriage as human trafficking – CNE.news
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Serbia sees child marriage as human trafficking – CNE.news

The Serbian authorities are working on an initiative that classifies child marriage as human trafficking. The government wants to change the Family Law to prevent underage girls from getting married. According to Euractiv, between 22 and 50 per cent of Serbian girls marry before they turn 18. Tomislav Žigmanov, the Minister of Human and Minority…

Catholic prevention organization: Mexico ranks first in human trafficking and child abuse
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Catholic prevention organization: Mexico ranks first in human trafficking and child abuse

In a June 2020 Mexican Senate bulletin, Congresswoman Verónica Beatriz Juárez Piña said that Mexico was exporting 60% of child pornography worldwide and that the rate had shot up to 73% during the lockdowns. According to UNICEF, child pornography is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world after drug trafficking, with earnings estimated…

Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Nonprofit Takes Aim
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Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Nonprofit Takes Aim

Imagine a seven-year-old girl, spending her days not in school, but cooking and cleaning for a family in a wealthy suburb. Or a young mother struggling to make ends meet, lured away from her children by an employment agency and forced into sex work abroad. For millions of people, this is a reality. Human trafficking…

The Stark Reality of Child Trafficking – UNICEF at the University of Michigan
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The Stark Reality of Child Trafficking – UNICEF at the University of Michigan

By Paighton Gimotty Human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and forced labor take place all across the globe– even here in Michigan. Guided by UNICEF’s principles on child protection, UNICEF UM led an internal education initiative to educate its members about this stark reality. Paighton Gimotty, Ross ‘24, is a UNICEF UM Student Representative and a member…

Bengal, UNICEF focus on community participation to end child marriage – Newsdrum
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Bengal, UNICEF focus on community participation to end child marriage – Newsdrum

Kolkata, Mar 11 (PTI) The West Bengal government and UNICEF have unveiled tools to give impetus to their joint initiative focusing on community participation for ending child marriage, gender inequality and gender-based violence. West Bengal State Rural Livelihood Mission (WBSRLM), under the aegis of the ‘Anandadhara’ project, has engaged Self-Help Groups (SHG) since September last…

The Situation of the Rohingya and Deadly Sea Crossings – Refugees International
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The Situation of the Rohingya and Deadly Sea Crossings – Refugees International

This piece was jointly submitted with Women’s Peace Network to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons in response to their call for inputs. For decades, as an ethnic minority group, the Rohingya people have faced discrimination, oppression, and persecution in Myanmar. Stripped from their access to property, citizenship, and other basic rights,…

Syria's child earthquake survivors at risk of abuse and exploitation, experts fear
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Syria's child earthquake survivors at risk of abuse and exploitation, experts fear

Follow the latest on the earthquake in Turkey Thousands of children in Syria are at risk of abuse in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that has killed more than 42,000 people and resulted in hundreds, if not thousands, of children left unaccompanied, humanitarian groups told The National. Last Monday, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck in…

The Criminal Offence of Human Trafficking – Lexology
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The Criminal Offence of Human Trafficking – Lexology

Right from under the noses of the British Home Office, hundreds of child refugees, seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, are being abducted and trafficked for all sorts of reasons. The British Home Office has been repeatedly cautioned by a multitude of agencies, about the dangers such vulnerable children faced, arriving unaccompanied from their homelands….