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August - 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.

Mercosur countries join efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children
and adolescents in the region

Buenos Aires, 19 August 2008 (UNICEF).- Representatives of MERCOSUR and international human rights organizations like the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT) met today in Buenos Aires, in the framework of a sub-regional meeting to establish common goals in the struggle against the sexual of children and adolescents.

LATIN AMERICA AND HE CARIBBEAN PREPARE
FOR THE III WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN

Buenos Aires, August 20 (UNICEF).- Delegates from 34 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, international United Nations functionaries and representatives of civil society organizations gathered today in Buenos Aires, within the framework of the first workday of the preparatory meeting for the III World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children, to be held in November in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

UNICEF Executive Director pays first visit to Madagascar to assess cyclone recovery

ANALANJIROFO, Madagascar, 28 July 2008 – Ann M. Veneman, on the first-ever visit by a UNICEF Executive Director to Madagascar, spent Sunday in Analanjirofo, the region hardest hit by Cyclone Ivan earlier this year.

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?