Speaking at the launch, the Minister of Information, Moses Kunkuyu, called on young people to actively participate saying the consultation were an 'assignment attached to destiny, an assignment they could not fail.' UNICEF urges young people to participate in the consultations.
Cities are Failing Children, UNICEF Warns DHAKA, 29 February 2012 – Urbanization leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World.
In addition to these tangible measures of the ways the world fails children, UNICEF argued that almost beyond measure is the lost human capacity that results from poor early childhood care.
"It would be criminal to fail on that goal," Carol Bellamy, executive director of Unicef, said in a telephone interview.
"We cannot turn our faces away from the tragedy of so many innocent young lives and futures lost – or fail to address the dangers so many more children are facing," Unicef's executive director, Anthony Lake, said.
UNICEF is concerned that the living standards in detention facilities fail to meet the health and education needs of the children or preserve their human dignity.
Commenting on the significance of the Decade, UNICEF Chief of Water, Environment and Sanitation Vanessa Tobin said, "We can't fail on this promise.
According to Ms. Mokuo, a UNICEF-supported survey indicates that about 25 per cent of girls in Tajikistan fail to complete compulsory primary education because of poverty and gender bias.
A11 Effort to Protect Women Unicef began a global campaign against homicidal violence against women in cultures in which laws and society fail to protect them.
Unicef began a global campaign today against homicidal violence against women in cultures where laws and society fail to protect them.
UNICEF's Representative in the Philippines, Dr. Nicholas Alipui, added: "Peace-building efforts will not succeed if we fail to deliver the basic services that families need.
