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BICE participates in the day on early childhood at UNESCO
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- Friday, 27 April 2012
The UNESCO[1] Working Group on Education for All, of which BICE is a member, organized a series of debates on early childhood care and education.
BICE’s delegate for Latin America, Carmen Serrano (left) presented the vision and actions of our organisation relating to early...
Child rights placed on the agenda of the HRC
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- Thursday, 12 April 2012
The protection of children against sexual exploitation in situations of humanitarian crisis, and violence towards children, debated at the United Nations. The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and pornography, Mme Najat Maala M’jid, recently presented the results of a study to the Human Rights Council (HRC), on the protection of children against trafficking and sexual exploitation in situations of humanitarian crisis and natural catastrophe. Over the next ten years, these practices may concern 550 million children worldwide. The number of children concerned is extremely hard to determine, because of the illegal nature of the practices in...
The relationship between a child and his imprisoned parent
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- Wednesday, 04 April 2012
The rights of children of incarcerated parents addressed by the Human Rights Council The children of prisoners are collateral victims of the penal system, both in developing and developed countries. It is vital to preserve the bond between the child and the incarcerated parent. Mail, visits, or even a stay in the prison for a limited period, enables the child to maintain a relationship with his father or mother, regardless of the criminal acts of the parent. Delinquency and imprisonment can mean that the parent loses his legal parental role, but symbolically and emotionally, he remains the child’s parent. It is thus vital for the child’s pyschological development that, despite the complexity of the situation, he maintains the ties with his parent even if the parent is incarcerated. Obviously, if the parent is...
How better to protect children with HIV and AIDS?
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- Tuesday, 27 March 2012
The rights to life, heath and food are part and parcel of protecting children with HIV and AIDS On the occasion of the 19th Session of the Human Rights Council, BICE, together with other NGOs, reaffirmed the urgency of considering the alarming situation of children living with HIV-AIDS and co-infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and of implementing as soon as possible the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS by UNAIDS. According to statistics – provided by UNAIDS and WHO in the ...
At the UN, BICE is committed against extreme poverty
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- Thursday, 22 March 2012
BICE, ATD Quart Monde and four other NGOs are advocating fast adoption of the guiding principles on extreme poverty As part of the interactive dialogue organized by the Human Rights Council with High Commissioner Ms Pillay, BICE has intervened jointly with five other NGOs on the issue of human rights in situations of extreme poverty. It is now over ten years since the UN has been working to develop guidelines for placing human rights at the heart of the fight against extreme poverty. An essential step was taken in August 2006, when UN experts agreed on a draft of guiding principles: ...
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