The launch capped a series of activities conducted last month to raise awareness about the theme of the Day of the African Child 2007: combating child trafficking.
This presents a serious obstacle to protecting the rights of children and combating the problem of child sexual abuse and exploitation.
Throughout the assembly, speakers emphasized the link between responding to the needs of children and combating poverty.
Ms. Guo Congcong from China said full participation by children in combating and preventing violence against them posed a huge challenge to traditions and customs in the region.
Protection of vulnerable children and combating HIV/AIDS figured more prominently in UNICEF programmes than ever before, as did gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, work with and for adolescents, and partnership building.
SKOPJE, 15 February 2011 - The importance of using positive images when promoting the rights of children and combating discrimination and stigma was at the core of the discussions at a Communication Symposium on Positive Representations of Roma Children, held in Skopje today.
Even if it were possible to calculate the lifetime health risks a fat child faces, combating obesity is not so easy.
It's on track to meet goals on poverty reduction, reducing child mortality, combating non-communicable diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and MDG 8 on global partnership for development.
By increasing risks to human health, welfare, and ecosystems, climate impacts can threaten primary development goals -- reducing poverty, increasing access to education, improving child health, combating disease and managing natural resources sustainably.
The agreement calls for stronger collaboration globally and at the country level to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality, combating HIV and building global partnerships.
