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Unicentro exhibits UNICEF cards with messages for Haitian children

Unicentro Shopping Centre in Bogotá currently is exhibiting more than 3700 UNICEF cards with messages and drawings of support and solidarity that the children of Colombia have prepared for their peers in Haiti. The cards will be available and exhibited to the public until April 30 in the main entrance to the mall.

VOTE FOR CHILDREN

A strategy to get all presidential candidates to centre their attention on the country’s most precious resource: its children and adolescents

Bogotá, April 15, 2010 – To ensure that children and adolescents are present on the presidential candidates’ agendas, and subsequently in the government plan of whoever wins the presidency, the entities working for the rights of all citizens under 18 in Colombia have designed the “Vote for Children Strategy”.

Colombia’s children send messages of support and solidarity to Haiti

Children and adolescents in more than 100 schools in 14 cities celebrated Change for UNICEF Day, an annual activity that seeks to sensitize the education community to the problems facing children.

Cundinamarca children and adolescents to be protected from commercial sexual exploitation

Project to mitigate sexual exploitation set to begin in the Chinauta-Girardot tourism corridor

Getting children and adolescents protected against Commercial Sexual Exploitation is the goal of the project to be put into operation this Friday, April 9, by the directors of Compensar, UNICEF and the Office of the Governor of Cundinamarca.

After January’s quake, humanitarian action in Haiti averts worse crisis for children, but much remains to be done

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 13 April 2010 - Three months after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti and left its mark on over a million children, UNICEF today reports that the unprecedented humanitarian response has averted a worse crisis for children – but warns that there is much still to be done, not least as Haiti approaches the annual rainy season.

Sixty thousand Haitian children to receive life-saving vaccination as part of Vaccination Week of the Americas

Port-au-Prince, 3 may 2010. An estimated 60,000 Haitian children under the age of five will receive life-saving immunization in the next few days, as part of the Vaccination Week of the Americas – an annual vaccination initiative covering 44 countries and territories in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

International professionals in Education preparing to address education in emergency situations

Bogotá, 29 April 2010. The Education in Emergencies Working Group in Colombia and UNICEF are holding a training session for professionals and technical personnel from the education sector and functionaries of humanitarian agencies, in order to provide them with the necessary tools for an adequate preparation to manage and reduce risk in emergency situations.

'A Haiti Fit for Children'

UNICEF and NGO partners make plans to build back better

NEW YORK, 31 March 2010 – Six international aid organizations met in a public session at UNICEF headquarters yesterday, planning ways to make children the focus of rebuilding Haiti in the aftermath of the 12 January earthquake.

The Offices of UNICEF and the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights (OACNUDH) in Colombia condemn and repudiate the utilization of children and adolescents in any act of violence

Bogotá, March 29, 2010. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Colombia condemn and repudiate the horrifying death last March 25 of a boy of only 12, who was utilized to place an explosive charge in the municipality of El Charco in the department of Nariño, which also caused injuries to several civilians and damages to the local police station and nearby houses.

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Children and Adolescents in the Colombian Press Today (Spanish)

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