Children make historic appeal in Parliament to #ENDviolence
On November 19, on the eve of World Children’s Day, a group of children became the first in Jamaican history to address Parliament in a Special Session on Violence against Children. They were 7 year-old twins Ngozi and Tafari Wright, 10 year-old Keino King and 18 year-old Shaneille Hall. Ngozi, who opened the presentation, made a powerful…, Organised to celebrate child rights, The Special Session marked the culmination of a series of activities led by UNICEF Jamaica to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child . Over the last three months, UNICEF has been consulting with 300 students in a series of children’s townhalls held in three parishes, in collaboration with the Office of the…, Children invited to share experiences, What these children shared in workshop sessions, personal interactions and creative performances was often distressing. Many of them have experienced violence directly – running the gamut from psychological to sexual to physical to online. Others have witnessed the same kinds of violence. And yet, many of them are resilient and hopeful. In each…, Why UNICEF was compelled to do this, We also work at the level of laws and policies. UNICEF supported the development and recent updating of the National Plan of Action for an Integrated Response to Children and Violence (NPACV), which the Government publicly launched on November 19 – after the Special Session in Parliament. The NPACV is intended to help Jamaica fulfil its…, Children now expect action in 2020, As such, Jamaica is guided by a set of seven INSPIRE strategies that are based on the best available evidence and together provide a framework for addressing violence against children. This comes with an accompanying road map for its implementation. In his response at the Special Session, speaking of the NPACV, Prime Minister Holness said , “This…
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