Education Cannot Wait approves US$1 million emergency response allocation for displaced children and youth in Mozambique [EN/PT]
Format
New funding will provide children and youth displaced by violence in Cabo Delgado and doubly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with safe and protective learning environments
4 February 2021, New York In response to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Mozambique, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) today announced a US$1 million first emergency response allocation to benefit displaced children and youth impacted by increasing violence in Cabo Delgado province. Ongoing violence and insecurity have displaced more than half a million people, including 250,000 children in just the past few years. The COVID-19 pandemic makes matters even worse, straining education, health and financial systems, and forcing crisis-affected children even further to the margins.
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Uganda
80th pre-session
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls by Soldiers (article 2)
Ugandan soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic have sexually exploited or abused at least 13 women and girls between 2015 and 2017, including at least one rape, and threatened some victims to remain silent. The Ugandan military was deployed in the country between 2009 and 2017 as a part of the African Union’s Regional Task Force to eliminate the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group.
Human Rights Watch interviewed a total of 13 women and 3 girls in early 2017, who described exploitation or abuse, including rape, since 2010 by Ugandan soldiers in the southeastern town of Obo, where Ugandan forces were based, and heard credible accounts of other cases. Two of the women were girls when the exploitation or abuse took place. Two women and one girl said that soldiers threatened reprisals if they t
In 2021 protecting children in conflict must go back to the top of the global agenda
Format
DENISA DELIC
2020 was a year of headlines dominated by covid-19 and preoccupied governments working hard to tackle the health pandemic. But 2021 must be the year where governments widen their horizons and address the full spectrum of crises.
When the global health crisis picked up pace last year, I wrote about the need for world leaders to make sure developments across the globe were not left unchecked. The need to continue to invest time and resource in preventing conflict, protecting civilians and holding perpetrators of violations to account remains as vital as ever. This has become even more acute as covid-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities, in particular for the most deprived and marginalised children living in conflict.
In 2021 protecting children in conflict must go back to the top of the global agenda
2020 was a year of headlines dominated by covid-19 and preoccupied governments working hard to tackle the health pandemic. But 2021 must be the year where governments widen their horizons and address the full spectrum of crises.
When the global health crisis picked up pace last year, I wrote about the need for world leaders to make sure developments across the globe were not left unchecked. The need to continue to invest time and resource in preventing conflict, protecting civilians and holding perpetrators of violations to account remains as vital as ever. This has become even more acute as covid-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities, in particular for the most deprived and marginalised children living in conflict.
Maryam Abeeb, Abuja
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Arch. Sonny Echono, has revealed that preparations are being made to ensure that the country successfully hosts the forthcoming international conference on Safe Schools Declaration(SSD). Echono disclosed this in Abuja while hosting a delegation of the Deputy Heads of Mission of Norway, Argentina and Spain who visited to ascertain the country’s level of preparedness for the conference scheduled for the 25th of October, 2021. According to Arch. Echono, Committees have been set up with to handle specfic tasks in readiness for a successful 4th International conference on Safe Schools Declaration.