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Declarations by UNICEF Representative Paul Martin at the press conference held in the framework of the VIII Meeting of Governors for Children, Bucaramanga Santander, to be held June 3 and 4, 2009
Bogotá, May 27, 2009. “Many thanks to the members of the Directive Board. In particular I would like to thank the Inspector General and the Deputy Attorney General for hosting us today, and also Governor Serpa for being our host at the Eighth Governors’ Summit for Children”.
   
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO RISKS IN PUBLIC MANIFESTATIONS
Bogotá, 21 April 2009. With the aim of protecting children and adolescents against any act that mighty place their lives, dignity and personal integrity at risk, the General Director of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, Elvira Forero Hernández; the Inspector General of the Nation, Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado and UNICEF’s Representative for Colombia Paul Martin join in issuing a call to those participating in marches or citizen mobilizations, to remind them of the obligation of protecting the vulnerable population.

FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY
A PRIORITY AT THE VIII GOVERNORS’ MEETING
Bogotá, May 27, 2009 The food and nutritional security of children, adolescents and youths in the current global crisis is the theme around which the VIII Meeting of Governors for Children, Adolescents and Youths will be held next June 3 and 4 at the Fair Centre in Bucaramanga, Santander.
 
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman on Child Marriage
NEW YORK, 13 April 2009 - UNICEF is deeply concerned by reports that Saudi Arabian tribunals have decided not to annul the marriage of an eight-year-old girl. Irrespective of circumstances or the legal framework, the marriage of a child is a violation of that child’s rights.



EMERGENCY IN COLOMBIA FROM HEAVY RAINS
Given the serious rainy season emergency that is punishing the country, and which to date has left more than a million persons affected, including more than half a million children, what measures do you think should be taken to prevent a rain emergency? What would you suggest so that all of us together can help and give support for the affected populations?

A Manual that means to change the reality of children, adolescents and pregnant women with HIV and Aids

There is worldwide concern about the situation in which child victims of HIV and Aids are living. It is estimated that 9 out of every 10 children living with the virus acquired it during gestation, birth or lactation. The others acquired it through contaminated injections, blood transfusions or infected blood products, sex abuse or early, unprotected sexual relations.

UNICEF Celebrates Change Day
‘Just one day for a whole lifetime’

"Just one day for a whole lifetime" is the central message with which UNICEF is celebrating Change Day, a campaign promoting the solidarity of the country’s students with the children and adolescents affected by the heavy rainy season that punished the country at the beginning of this year, and in its wake left more than 1.2 million persons in very precarious situations, more than half of them under the age of 18.

A(H1N1) Influenza virus

How to prevent contagion?

Here are several archives and documents prepared by the Ministry of Social Protection and the United Nations.

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