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Posts Categorized: Children
May 26, 2015
From our colleagues in the Office for Public Witness: The detention of Palestinian minors by Israel raises serious concerns about lack of due process and ill-treatment. These concerns serve as a call to action for those who feel a responsibility to care for the most weak and vulnerable members of society. According to the Israeli… Read more »
March 20, 2015
The UNICEF Tap Project is back! This year’s initiative asks Americans to unlock 14 million days of clean, safe water for children around the world by encouraging you to stop texting, calling, emailing, tweeting and posting — and challenge your friends to do the same. Millions of children around the globe do not have safe,… Read more »
December 4, 2014
by Richard Aylor Since April, 3 member states and 1 non-member state have ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Ethiopia ratified on May 14, Guinea-Bissau ratified on September 24, and the Dominican Republic ratified on October 14. The State of… Read more »
November 19, 2014
by Richard Aylor On Saturday November 8, I visited the Presbyterian Women of Monmouth at Brick Presbyterian Church in Brick, New Jersey. For the first part of my presentation, we did advocacy training, and had great conversations about ways to get involved in the community politically. We also talked about our calling as Disciples of… Read more »
November 5, 2014
by Velta Upeslacis While attending the 58th Commission on the Status of Women in March 2014, I learned about various NGO’s and how they are contributing to women’s empowerment both nationally and worldwide. I recently attended a conference “Changing the Conversation” where the Rev. Mark Koenig , director of the was a prominent speaker. In… Read more »
October 27, 2014
Halloween costumes have appeared in New York City. However you observe the holiday, consider participating in Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF this year. Started by Presbyterians, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is a prime fundraiser for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in more than 190 countries and territories to save and improve… Read more »
July 8, 2014
by Max Hill Last week the Secretary-General released the annual report on Children and Armed Conflict. This report summarized all of the progress that has been made in terms of reducing the amount of children involved in situations of armed conflict, as well as highlighted areas where work still needs to be done. UN Special… Read more »
July 3, 2014
by Catherine Warren At UN Headquarters on Tuesday, June 10th UNICEF Activate Talks hosted an event to discuss “Innovative Approaches to Advocate for Child Rights.” UNICEF hosts Activate Talks to bring together innovators, experts and thought leaders to illustrate innovations that are able to bring progress on big issues that “vulnerable and marginalized” children face… Read more »
June 4, 2014
by Max Hill In March, the United Nations and UNICEF launched an initiative to end the use of children as security forces by governments. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui launched the initiative. This campaign is known as Children, Not Soldiers. This initiative is a call to… Read more »
June 3, 2014
by Grace Segers On June 12, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations will be supporting the International Labour Organization’s Red Card to Child Labour campaign. The ILO reports there are an estimated 168 million child workers in the world. These children suffer abuse as sweatshop workers, miners, child soldiers, sex workers, or in other… Read more »
