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| V-DAY
and UNICEF Call for an End to Rape and
Sexual Torture against Women and Girls
in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo |
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York, NY - August 6, 2007: Highlighting
the issue of violence against women
and girls in the Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC), renowned playwright
Eve Ensler has chronicled her first-hand
encounters with women in eastern DRC,
where sexual violence has become a
routine weapon of war. Her account
appears in Glamour magazine today. |
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| 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? |
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 Forums
for Public Rendering of Accounts begin in the Department
of Nariño
Bogotá,
October 31, 2007. Next Friday, November 2, at
eight in the morning, the departmental forum
on Public Rendering of accounts will begin, organized
by the Nariño Secretariat of Health with
support from UNICEF and the Fundación
Santa Fe de Bogotá.
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 Today
UNICEF and the National Registrar’s Office
launch the Civil Birth Registration Campaign for
child victims
of the Córdoba rainy season emergency
Bogotá. October 30, 2007. Today the Office
of the National Registrar of Civil Status, with
UNICEF’s support, begins a series of civil
birth registration days in the Department of Córdoba,
to benefit child and adolescent victims of the
rainy season emergency caused by the overflow of
the Sinú and San Jorge rivers.
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Departmental authorities render accounts to the
community on health and nutrition for children
and women
Bogotá, October 30, 2007. In order to
contribute to realizing the rights of children,
and especially to the construction of a culture
of demandability of rights, the departmental
secretariats of health, with support from UNICEF
and the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá,
will hold four forums in November on “Public
Rendering of Accounts” where departmental
authorities will report to their communities
on their management to ensure the right to health
and nutrition of mothers and of children under
seven.
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 Now
with just a click you can get UNICEF cards and products
from our new Virtual Store
Bogotá, October 29, 2007. Starting this week UNICEF is launching
its Virtual Store, where people interested in acquiring products from the
2007 Cards and Products Catalog can do so easily and quickly, but above all,
from the comfort of their own home or office, with just a click. |
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 Floods
create a ‘ghost town’, putting young
lives on hold in Córdoba, Colombia
PALO
DE AGUA, Colombia 23 October 2007 – From
the highway connecting Cereté with
Lorica, you can begin to see how flooding
has affected this zone of the Department
of Córdoba. Although the trunks of
the coconut palms remain standing, what used
to be fertile land looks like a swamp.
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 Awá indigenous
people, beneficiaries of the project
to prevent the involvement of children, adolescents
and youths in armed groups outside the law
Bogotá, October 23, 2007. Two thousand six hundred children, adolescents
and youths between the ages of 12 and 25 from the Awá community in
the municipalities of Barbacoas, Samaniego, Tumaco, Ricaurte and Roberto
Payán in the department of Nariño will benefit from the Constructing
Awá Life – Youth Participation in the Awá People project
to be implemented by the Indigenous Awá People’s Unity (UNIPA),
with support from UNICEF and the participation of the Nariño Governor’s
Office and the Departmental Institute of Health. |
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Message of the United Nations Secretary General,
Ban Ki-moon. International Day for the Eradication
of Poverty.
17 October /07
They
pledged a world where all children complete
their elementary education; a world where
people have access to safe drinking water,
and families are protected from deadly diseases
like malaria; a world where nations work
together to cut greenhouse gas emissions
that contribute to global warming.
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 Announcing
the LATINOSAN 2007 VIDEO COMPETITION:
Showing the impact of sanitation on human development
Recognizing
the importance of disseminating the problem
of environmental sanitation and hygiene,
and seeking to motivate such dissemination
in a creative and effective way, institutions
are invited to enter the Video Competition
to be held as part of the cultural activities
of the Latin American Sanitation Conference
2007.
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 LATINOSAN
2007
LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON SANITATION
CALI, COLOMBIA, 12-16 NOVEMBER
From
November 12 to 14, 2007 the Latin American
Sanitation Conference, LatinoSan 2007, will
beheld in Cali, Colombia.
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Message
of the Secretary General of the United nations,
Ban Ki-moon, on World Habitat Day
1 October / 2007
We
are at the dawn of a new urban era. Half
of humanity now live in towns and cities.
It is estimated that by 2030, two-thirds
of the world's people will be urban dwellers.
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PANDI News -
Children and Adolescents in the Colombian Press Today (Spanish)
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