... year’s observance focuses on “acting together to empower children, their families and communities to end poverty”, as we mark the ... United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children are more than twice as likely to live in extreme poverty than adults. ...
... so much. But they never lose their dreams for their children or their desire to better our world. They ask for little in ...
... It is the foundation for progress and well-being – happy children, thriving communities, and peaceful, prosperous countries. Let ...
... justice. We owe a debt of gratitude to all those millions of children, teenagers and young adults who have been standing up and speaking out ... environment. And not just our future, but the future of our children, grand-children and great grand-children. We need to mobilise ...
... also outraged by the killing of 21 civilians, including four children and four women as well as the injuring of 14 civilians, which occurred ...
... vulnerable and rob them of their fundamental rights. Children and young people, migrants and refugees are especially susceptible. ...
... from their homes, with over 65 million people now displaced. Children are recruited by armed groups and used to fight. Women are abused and ...
... Today we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. Countless others also lost their ...
... promote and protect human rights, particularly of women and children. The participants also welcomed the inclusion, within the Government, ...
... South-West Region, on 24 October, in which several children were reportedly killed and several others wounded. The attack is ... reminder of the exacting heavy toll on civilians, including children, many of whom have been deprived of their right to education. Attacks ...
