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15th December 2005 - Programme Number 78

A REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN BY UNICEF; LUIS MORENO OCAMPO BRIEFS THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE CRISIS IN DARFUR and, ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF COMES TO THE UN

A new report released by UNICEF says that hundreds of millions of children are suffering from severe exploitation and discrimination and have become virtually invisible in the world. UNICEF's Joe Edwin Judd focuses on some of the problem facing children in Africa:


"Of the 115 million children who are out of school in the world, about sixty-two per cent of that number is for African children. And that's very serious."

As the crisis persists in Darfur, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Moreno Ocampo, briefs the Security Council on his investigation of crimes that have been committed in the region. He says the court is facing a number of challenges lack of full cooperation from all those concerned:


"The continuing insecurities in Darfur do not allow for an effective system of victim and witness protection. This has forced my office to investigate outside Sudan and
represents a serious impediment to the conduct of effective investigations in Darfur by
national judicial bodies as well."

The President-elect of Liberia, Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf this week came to the United Nations to meet with the Secretary-General and other officials. She tells UN Radio she would like the United Nations to continue its peacekeeping mission and to support Liberia's development agenda.

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