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The State recognizes its children as subjects of rights

Why the Law on Children is necessary

Bogotá, August 31/06. The 215 articles approved by the Senate of the Republic last Tuesday, August 29 mark the beginning of a new phase for Colombia’s 18 million children and adolescents. With them, the country has updated its legislation on children, adjusting it to the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Better targeted care, support and protection for children affected by AIDS needed to stem the tide

TORONTO/NEW YORK, 14 August 2006 – The AIDS epidemic continues to affect children disproportionately and in many harmful ways, making them more vulnerable than other children, leaving many of them orphaned and threatening their survival, says a new report by UNICEF, UNAIDS, and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

For Lebanese children, the homefront is a landscape mined with dangers

TYRE, Lebanon, 23 August 2006 – Sikuna Marei, 12, lies in the intensive care unit of Tyre’s Jebel Amel hospital. Even the oxygen mask she’s wearing can’t conceal the pain she suffers from the wound where doctors removed a jagged piece of shrapnel from her liver.

HIV treatment access reaches over 1 million in sub-Saharan Africa, WHO reports

16 AUGUST 2006 | TORONTO -- Addressing a plenary session of the XVI International AIDS Conference here today, WHO HIV/AIDS Director Dr Kevin De Cock reported that the number of people receiving HIV antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa has surpassed 1 million for the first time, a ten-fold increase in treatment access in the region since December 2003.

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?