Press Centre: Child Protection
UNICEF Turkey Press Releases on Child Protection:
Photograph by Selahattin Sönmez
© Turkish Daily News
12 June 2009: World Day Against Child Labour Marks the Need to Tackle the Worst Forms of Exploitation
27 April 2009: Ankara hosts international symposium on children in conflict with the law
28 November 2008: World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents comes to a close in Brazil
27 November 2008: Adolescents from around the world converge on Rio de Janeiro to participate in the World Congress III Against Sexual Exploitation of Children
25 November 2008: World Gathers in Brazil to Reinvigorate Fight against Sexual Exploitation of Children
20 November 2008 (2): Turkey’s Parliament sets up Child Rights Monitoring Committee
20 November 2008 (1): On Universal Children’s Day, UNICEF welcomes new initiative to aid children affected by conflict
31 October 2008: Enthusiastic launch for EU–funded child protection project
10 June 2008: UNICEF Egypt is organising an international conference on Child Poverty and Disparities: Public Policies for Social Justice within the framework of the First International Forum for the Developing Countries Think Tanks.
29 May 2008: State Minister Nimet Çubukçu thanks UNICEF
16 May 2008: The closing ceremony of the first phase of the EU–backed project was marked by frank personal statements from project beneficiaries.
08 May 2008: The closing ceremony of the first phase of Towards Good Governance, Justice and Protection for Children in Turkey, the Government’s multi–sectoral project, which is funded by the EU and implemented with the technical support of UNICEF will take place from 14:00 to 16:00 on the 14th of May at the Dedeman Hotel, Ankara.
29 January 2008: UNICEF’s flagship report, The State of the World’s Children 2008, was launched at a press conference in Ankara on January 23, coinciding with similar events taking place in all parts of the globe.
23 April 2007 According to the UNICEF report on Eliminating Child Poverty which you are reading about first in Yeni Aktüel, the state of children in Turkey is unfortunately not as bright as the celebrations on April 23rd, the 83rd National Sovereignty and Children’s Day, should imply.
9 November 2006 The Minister of National Education, Dr Hüseyin Çelik, unveiled six new television advertisements and other materials targeting violence in the education environment at a press conference in the East Anatolian provincial centre of Elazığ on October 13.
13 July 2006: This is a good school. It’s better than the others,
one young teenager confided in me as we crossed the yard, surrounded by bright childish murals of balloons, animals and flowers.
13 June 2006: The Third Intergovernmental Conference on Making Europe and Central Asia Fit for Children.
18 May 2006: The Government of Turkey hosts a conference on Child Poverty with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 12-13 June 2006.
19 April 2006: Turkey’s Ministry of National Education and UNICEF launch drive to eradicate violence from school
23 January 2006: An EU-financed project “Towards Good Governance, Protection and Justice for Children in Turkey” or Children First was launched on 20th January 2006 at the Hilton Hotel, Ankara.
17 June 2005 (1): More than 225 participants including representatives from five different ministries, parliamentarians, governors, mayors, NGOs, academicians, the media and children met to reaffirm their commitment to protecting the rights of street children during a conference between on the 16th and 17th of June at the Princess Hotel.
17 June 2005 (2): The State Minister for Women’s and Children’s Issues Çubukçu and the Minister of the Interior Abdülkadir Aksu have announced that specific steps are to be taken for the care of street children. The Ministers said that the problem will be addressed in cooperation with non-governmental organisations.
17 June 2005 (3): The State Minister Responsible for Women’s and Children’s Issues, the Minister of National Education, the Minister of Health, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Justice have set up a joint commission to develop a new model of child protection.
10 December 2004 (2): Mrs Emine Erdoğan speaks at the launch of the State of the World’s Children 2005 Report in Ankara, Turkey.
10 December 2004 (3): At the launch of the State of the World’s Children 2005 report in Turkey, panellists Cansu Aydın, Ramazan Etyemez, Canser Karadaş and Zeynep Koç discuss the issue of ‘Childhood Under Threat’ in the Turkish context.
22 June 2004: One of the most dangerous and unfortunate consequences of social transformation in a developing country is child labour.
(Turkish Daily News)
4th April 2003: UNICEF says protecting children is key to their health -- abuse and exploitation do lasting damage to healthy development
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