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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 government must strengthen interventions at tackling extreme poverty to help address the prevalence of child labour in the country, the Head of Child Labour Unit of the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Elizabeth Akanbombire, has urged. “Parents and households are in difficult times and even though we have the Free, Compulsory Universal Basic…
Guwahati: The Assam Legislative Assembly will discuss the issue of child protection under the “Speaker’s Initiative” during one of the forthcoming Assembly sessions. This was announced by Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Monday while delivering his keynote address during a media awards ceremony held in support of Children’s Rights Programme organised by UNICEF…
Criminalizing pregnancies out of wedlock and outlawing “females posing as men” are part of the amendments to the Shariah Criminal Offences Enactment 2022 that the Terengganu state legislative assembly recently passed – and people are not happy about it. The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) are calling for a human rights impact assessment in…
Each year, the world unites to commemorate the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. This international campaign kicks off on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs through December 10, the Human Rights Day. This year, Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL) is shining a spotlight on…
An unfortunate social reality in the Asia-Pacific is that it accounts for the lion’s share of the world’s human trafficking: according to the United Nations, 56 percent to be exact. Globally, the number of victims is around 2.5 million people, mainly women and children. In an effort to stem this human rights atrocity, MTV EXIT…
The recent marriage of a 5-year-old girl in Pakistan’s western province of Baluchistan has reignited debate over child protection, and the role of hard-line clergy in family matters. In October, two men in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province were arrested after police were tipped off that a 5-year-old girl had been forced into a marriage contract. The…
COLOMBO (News 1st) – UNICEF says in order to prevent a child protection crisis in Sri Lanka, there needs to be a generation of data on the types of violence against girls and boys, the locations, the perpetrators and the accessibility of services. This will help improve the planning and implementation of programmes to prevent…
(Xinhua) 09:55, November 19, 2022 Since the beginning of this year, nearly 580 children have been killed in conflict or violence across several countries in the region, an average of more than 10 children every week, said UNICEF in a press release. UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday…
Paving the way forward with recommendations to protect sexually exploited boys in Bolivia Bolivia—As part of the Global Boys Initiative, ECPAT International and Consortium ECPAT Bolivia launched the Bolivia report on 27 September in La Paz, Bolivia. The event marked a ground-breaking step forward for Bolivia, its government, and care workers engaged with youth and…
7 November 2022 Image credit: Thammachak Sotiya, via Shutterstock. This year we have seen the devastating impact on human lives by environmental events, amplified by climate change, such as the floods in Pakistan and devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, caused by five years of lack of rain. We know that in many cases…
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