Archive: 2015

by Krista Oehlke “Child protection is not ‘child protective services,’ but encompasses a wide range of issues…which urgently need addressing.” April 1, 2015. Last Friday, Susan Bissell, UNICEF’s chief of child protection, spoke to a room…

by Chivith Rottanak “…children talked about the reasons that they do not tell others, especially adults, about incidents of violence…” March 23, 2015. The 2006 United Nations Secretary General’s (UNSG) 2006 recommended that…

by Noor Al-Kasadi “Children without birth certificates are … at increased risk of being trafficked … or forcibly recruited into conflict.” ©UNICEF Yemen/2014/ Soraya Abu Monassar March 23, 2015. Every child has the right…

by Emelia Allan “If children count…we must count them.” ©UNICEF Ghana/Emelia Allan March 18, 2015. Article 7 (1) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) stipulates that “the child shall be registered immediately…

“Remedies can’t be tied to a broken system.” Worldwide, about 290,000 women die each year from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. From a numerical perspective, this figure appears to denote a situation less urgent than that…

By Clara Burbano- Herrera “The persistently high level of maternal mortality in Kenya in the new millennium should be understood as a failure by state authorities to comply with the commitments they made…” Maternal mortality…