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April - 2008

CHILDREN AND MINES
By Paul Martin, UNICEF Representative for Colombia
April 11, 2008

Aurelio’s sweet nature doesn’t seem to mesh with his tragedy. He is 12 years old, and was born in one of the Antioquia towns affected by the conflict. He’s in third grade and he likes to study. However, football is his real thing, although he can’t play like before. A mine blew off one of his legs, and for the last three years he has been leaning on a crutch, which helps him to use his prosthesis, which he has to change every six months.

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOG FOR OVERCOMING INTRA-FAMILY VIOLENCE
Bogotá, April 28, 29 and 30, 2008.

The Third GNRC Forum (Hiroshima, May 2008) convenes all religions to learn to share values, action, and hope, and propose a joint effort for the ethical imperative of eliminating violence against children, together with the other ethical imperatives of ensuring that no child has to live in poverty and protecting the Planet Earth.

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.

‘Children and AIDS: Second stocktaking report’ cites progress made to date

NEW YORK, USA, 3 April 2008 – Important progress has been made in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS since UNICEF – as a UNAIDS co-sponsoring agency – launched the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign in October 2005.

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?

Book launching
Nacido para Triunfar (“Born to Win”)

Testimony of an adolescent demobilized from an illegal armed group

Bogotá, April 29, 2008 – The University of Caldas and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are launching the book Nacido para Triunfar, written by a youth demobilized from an illegal armed group. It tells the story of his life, his experience within the group and the way he has been supported in creating his current life project.

Celebrating Science, Health and Life

6th Vaccination Week in the Americas, April 2008

Guabito, Border between Panama and Costa Rica, April 19, 2008 – Authorities from Costa Rica and Panama, with the decided support of the United Nations represented by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) celebrated the lives of an estimated 62 million persons – children, youths and adults – during the Sixth Vaccination Week in the Americas 2008, between April 19 and 26.

APRIL 4: INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR MINE AWARENESS AND ASSISTANCE IN MINE ACTION

Children, the most vulnerable ones

- In 2007, at least one child a week was a mine victim

Bogotá (Colombia), April 4, 2008. On the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, remembers that landmines and other explosive remnants of war directly or indirectly threaten children’s rights to life, survival and development.

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

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