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March - 2008

WHEN ARMED GROUPS STEAL CHILDHOOD FROM GIRLS
By Paul Martin, UNICEF Representative for Colombia
March 14, 2008

Children are the most heavily affected victims of the illegal armed groups. The recruitment of girls, boys and adolescents is a war crime – condemned and explicitly prohibited by the most ratified instruments of international law in the world: the Geneva Convention and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Furthermore, such recruitment is considered a crime under the Colombian Criminal Code.

WATER IS LIFE, SANITATION IS DIGNITY – WORLD WATER DAY

Panamá, March 19, 2008 - In Latin America and the Caribbean, 124 million persons do not have improved sanitation installations – an adequate bathroom affording them privacy, dignity, cleanliness and a healthy environment – and are forced to use measures like open-air defecation and deficient installations for disposal of their excreta. This often means depriving them of their dignity and exposing them to multiple dangers, from preventable diseases all the way to physical violence.

CHANGE FOR UNICEF DAY 2008
“Just One Day for Your Whole Life”

Bogotá, April 1, 2008: The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, invites all school-age children and adolescents to participate with their classmates in Change for UNICEF Day – an event that has been created to foster solidarity with children that live in extreme poverty.

‘Albania Reads’ – IKEA donation brings new books to schoolchildren in need

NEW YORK, USA, 25 February 2008 – UNICEF and IKEA are re-igniting enthusiasm for reading amongst a generation of children in Albania who have been deprived of books.

LAW ON CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

On August 17 the Bill of Statutory Law was presented to Congress “in which the law on Children and Adolescents is promulgated”, a proposal that prioritizes eight basic themes: Nutrition, Education, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Special Protection, Civil Registration, Maternal Mortality, Infant Mortality, and Water and Sanitation. Based on what you know about the country’s situation, what would you propose doing to consolidate these priorities?

UNICEF marks International Women’s Day by stressing importance of investing in maternal health

NEW YORK, 7 March 2008 – UNICEF is marking International Women’s Day 2008 (8 March) by drawing attention to the need for improvements in maternal health care.

Mitigating the impact of armed violence on children and communities in the Caribbean and Central America

KINGSTON, 7 March 2008 – Several Caribbean and Central American countries have called for an expansion of social interventions as a critical way to crack down on the high levels of armed violence affecting their nations.

In the Fight against HIV/Aids

The Staying Alive Foundation is launching its 2008 prizes to recognize innovative projects in schools, juvenile centers and clubs, using radio, television, the press, Internet and personal relations to reach youths at risk and protect them from HIV.

- PANDI News -
Children and Adolescents in the Colombian Press Today (Spanish)

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