Introduction
Ten years after the ’92-‘95 war, children in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) are growing up with a degree of security and stability. However, the fulfillment of children’s and women’s rights is hindered by the legacies of the war. Poverty is closely linked to discrimination, and many poor and vulnerable children are from families who experience religious/cultural, ethnic or political discrimination, or inequity based on their status as internally displaced persons (IDPs) or returnees, their residence in rural areas, their gender or disability.
UNICEF’s activities in this area are designed to strengthen country systems, capabilities and responses to prevent and protect children from violence, exploitation, abuse and conflict. UNICEF’s inclusive child protection programme focuses on enabling and motivating social welfare service providers to reach the most vulnerable children and young people, often excluded from mainstream services. This intervention strengthens government services to provide inclusive, client oriented, non-discriminatory, child and youth-friendly basic education, health and protection to all children – even those children who have no voice and are invisible: the disadvantaged and socially excluded.
Regional overview
Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS)
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