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Key Issues
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Key issues
- A significant number of children are deprived of parental care and many live in institutions.
- The juvenile justice system needs urgent reform to focus more on social rehabilitation. There are few social services and no social workers to protect children
- Mines endanger children's lives in more than 100,000 sq. meters of territory
- Children with disabilities remain isolated with no access to quality education or social services
- Children who spend a lot of time on the streets and are more vulnerable to abuse or exploitation
- Violence against children at home and in public settings;
- Early marriage is a critical issue
UNICEF responses
- Helping the government to reform laws and practices of child protection system, including social protection and juvenile justice
- Supporting strengthening of national independent child protection mechanism
- Building government and NGO capacity to deliver child-friendly services
- Supporting development of alternatives to institutional care
- Setting up alternatives to depravation of liberty for children in conflict with the law
- Preventing institutionalization of children and helping children in institutions to return to their families
- Strengthening the social services capacities by creating models in target communities
- Ensuring mine-risk education for all children in landmine/UXO affected areas
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