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Let city children have their say
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo, Jakarta
Children are city dwellers, just like adults. They have the right to live a meaningful life within urban environments.
The Child Friendly Cities (Kota Layak Anak) project that has been initiated in several Indonesian cities is an effort by the government to begin to acknowledge the rights of children in cities. Following a pilot project in five cities in 2006, the State Ministry for the Women's Empowerment is expanding the program to another 10 cities.
Dr. Ernest C. Madu
Investment and Development Will Secure the Rights of the Child
Twenty years after the United Nations agreed on a set of international standards for child rights by adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child, millions of children around the world are still at risk from poverty, deprivation, disease, hunger, pollution and a wide range of natural and human-made disasters.
Survivors recount earthquake's toll on schools in Qinghai Province, China
By Jin Bo
JIEGU, China, 26 April 2010 – When this small town in remote western China was hit by an earthquake on 14 April, 13-year-old Sangqiuyixi was sweeping the floor of his classroom at Yushu No.2 Ethnic High School. He broke the window and managed to escape.
Read more: Survivors recount earthquake's toll on schools in Qinghai Province, China
Relief in aftermath of Haiti’s ‘double disaster’
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 25 January 2010 – UN representatives and leaders from 15 nations are meeting today in Montreal, Canada, to discuss the long-term reconstruction of earthquake-shattered Haiti – with the aim of building back better than before.
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