More attention, however, should be given to child protection issues, especially child trafficking.

Societal issues found included violence against women, human trafficking, and child labour.

In conflict situations, UNICEF will support capacities to monitor and report on child protection issues.

This has often resulted in family issues and child development being incorporated more fully in national programmes.

Among the issues identified, the Working Group mentioned forced marriage, child marriage and the sale of wives.

Specific concerns were expressed over issues of staffing, disbursement of non food relief items, and child protection.

Federal and state legislation addressed issues of child protection and the prohibition of practices inimical to the welfare of the child such as trafficking, early marriages, street hawking, child labour and the withdrawal of girls from school.

Child protection issues often challenge long held beliefs and practices and can provoke denial and resistance to change.

The key areas addressed in this report are as follows social policy issues, employment, poverty, homelessness, health care, disability issues, early childhood development and child care, and family violence.

ARC has continued to engage partner agencies, Government counterparts and refugees in identifying and addressing child protection issues in field operations.

Ms. Hounkpe Ahougbenou (Benin) reiterated that Benin was cooperating with the countries of the subregion on issues such as child trafficking.

Poverty, infant mortality, unemployment, morbidity, suicide, criminal detention, abuse of women and child prostitution are issues of particular concern to the communities.

The talk shows addressed the issues of honour killings, dowry, violence against women, juvenile justice, jail reforms, child labour and minority rights.

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

Welcoming further the integration of issues of child rights in the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,

A primary linking mechanism is the generation of data and analyses on a broad range of maternal and child health and nutrition issues.

(a) Putting in place effective national legislation, policies and action plans and by strengthening relevant governmental structures for children, including, where appropriate, ministers in charge of child issues and independent commissioners for the rights of the child

The plan also facilitates UNICEF support for cross sectoral and interlinked approaches to major issues affecting children and to the child related international goals.

14.3 Over the past decade water and sanitation, two crucial development issues that have direct implications for community and child health have been improved.

Delegations said that the leadership role played by UNICEF helped to ensure that child protection issues were reflected in CCAs, UNDAFs, PRSs, and SWAps.

This focus area draws particularly on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Declaration, as well as numerous international human rights agreements, as the basis for response to a broad spectrum of child protection issues.

On the one hand it covers issues relating not only to women girls but also to other categories of individual (domestic violence, child sex abuse).

(e) Assisting indigenous women in identifying priority needs on such issues as health care, education, child registration, migration and in applying ICT in these areas

UNICEF also continued to focus on such issues as protection of children in armed conflict, HIV AIDS, gender bias, child labour and commercial sexual exploitation.

UNICEF was seriously engaged with Governments on child rights and advocated for rights with States and non State parties, publicizing issues of abuse and atrocities.

Proceeding from Islamic efforts on issues of childhood, which contributed to the development of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,

UNICEF encourages the involvement of children and young people in the preparation of national plans of action for children and sectoral plans on child related issues.

Improving knowledge of child protection issues and capacities for improved response is at the centre of the key results to be achieved through this focus area.

UNODC is actively involved in the aspects of the study relating to crime, juvenile justice, trafficking in children, child victims and other issues relevant to it.

For example, cooperation to address child survival in much of sub Saharan Africa will focus heavily on malaria control and immunization, while child mortality reduction in parts of Asia and elsewhere will entail addressing such issues as the prevention of injuries and accidents.

Many women seek advice from gender centres, especially on issues dealing with divorce, self support and child maintenance after divorce, employment and labor relations and sexual harassment.

My delegation welcomes the establishment of various lists, which will keep us better informed on the development of child related issues in various situations of armed conflict.

In the past few years, Greece had shown an increased sensitivity to issues concerning the rights of the child, had ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and had taken appropriate measures to widely publicize the principles of that Convention.

During the reporting period, discussions were held between national authorities and MONUC and other child protection partners on the establishment of specialized police units to address child protection issues, alternatives to imprisonment for juvenile suspects and the reform of the 1950 juvenile delinquency law.

Recognizing the importance of the integration of child rights issues into the follow up of the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,

Recognizing the importance of the integration of child rights issues into the follow up of the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,

More attention should be given to unintentional injuries intergenerational approaches to nutrition, including maternal nutrition breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding and social, psychological and emotional issues.

One delegation called on UNICEF to play a lead role in issues related to slavery and child trafficking and suggested establishing a global partnership to end the practices.

A public awareness campaign reached out to mothers on the issues of forced marriage and trokosi enslavement at shrines, and village level committees fought child trafficking and genital mutilation.

She asked what was being done to remedy delays in court hearings related to domestic violence cases and how child custody and access issues were handled in such cases.

(a) To request the Secretary General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty first session a report on the rights of the child, containing information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the issues contained in the present resolution

During the reporting period, UNHCR and UNICEF shared their observations in relation to the preparation of a general comment on the administration of justice under consideration by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, raising issues of particular importance to child victims of mass exodus.

Article 1 of the protocol requires parties to protect the rights and interests of child victims of trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, child labour and especially the worst forms of child labour.

The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 prohibits child marriages.

Possession of child pornography increases the risk of child abuse.