African and Caribbean Children

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A group of 22 children, aged about 10 and 11 were freed by Lord's Resistance Army rebels Sunday night. (AllAfrica)

Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today. (AllAfrica)

UNITED Nations Children's Funds (UNICEF) has lamented the fate of children in the country, stating that the only genuine way of showing commitment towards their protection was passing into law, the Child Right Bill by the various State governments. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, charged members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in the state to focus on community-based development projects in their national assignment. (AllAfrica)

The youths constitute the largest percentage in any society. Therefore, they represent the strength of the nation. But this segment of society is faced with several challenges. (AllAfrica)

An applicant, Ameh Joseph, 18, was yesterday arraigned before an Ejigbo Magistrate's Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling an 11-year old girl. Joseph, however, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of having canal knowledge of the girl without her consent. (AllAfrica)

Following the resuscitation of five uniformed voluntary organisations in Lagos State public primary and secondary schools early this year, school children have not only been registered as members of these clubs but are already actively participating in their activities and programmes, a development that now enables them to utilise their time and energy usefully and productively. (AllAfrica)

A human rights activist and social crusader, Mrs. Olushola Akai, has frowned at the rampant cases of sexual abuse against the youths in the present-day society. (AllAfrica)

The second graduation ceremony of the new beneficiaries of an Entrepreneurship Development Programme has taken place in Otta, Ogun State. The graduating students were trained by the Entrepreneurship Development Centre in Lagos. (AllAfrica)

A Trustee of the Nigeria Network of Non-Governmental Organisations (NNNGO), Ms. Yemisi Ransome-Kuti, has called on Nigerian youth to de-emphasise undue reliance on governments and the private sector, and to promote self-development through the use of ICT. (AllAfrica)

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has urged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to accept postings to various areas of primary assignment in good faith. (AllAfrica)

A traditional ruler in Oguta local government Area of Imo State, His Royal Highness Eze Ignatius O. Asoh has faulted federal government approach to rebranding saying that much money is being spent on frivolities instead of channeling such to youth development in rural areas. (AllAfrica)

Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa (PWMSA) Convener, Baleka Mbete, has called on families to stop protecting abusers of women and children. (AllAfrica)

THE Government has distributed coffee seedlings to the youth in Kayunga district in order to increase their household incomes and help them get rid of poverty. (AllAfrica)

THE parliamentary committee on social services wants parents who keep children of school-going age from attending classes arrested and prosecuted. (AllAfrica)

Children yesterday appealed to the government to increase the provision and access to antiretroviral drugs in order to accelerate HIV/aids treatment. (AllAfrica)

Some 100 children under five years of age will die today in Zimbabwe, a bleak statistic that is part of new social development data released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government, revealing that the situation there for women and children has deteriorated in the past five years. (AllAfrica)

It would take US$8.8 billion annually over several years to halve the number of malnourished children worldwide, currently at some 178 million, says Save the Children in a new eight-point action plan. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Women, Children and People living with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has called for perpetrators of abuse towards women and children to be given stiff sentences. (AllAfrica)

During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds. (AllAfrica)

AT least 1,000 children living in difficult conditions in Arusha will have a day to celebrate, when Vodacom Foundation, in collaboration with two not-for-profit organisations stage games for them on Saturday, at the Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium. (AllAfrica)

THE Jinja district LC5 chairman, Hannington Basakana, has lashed out people who abuse the rights of children, saying they were enemies of society and should be dealt with mercilessly. (AllAfrica)

The Young People in the Media (YPM), a legally registered organisation that aims to support and consolidate the efforts of young people working towards social justice, promoting the rights of the child, grassroot democracy and peace, has issued statements on the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a press release sent to the Daily Observer reveals. (AllAfrica)

The nucleus of the ruling MPLA party's youth wing (JMPLA) in Canada, over the weekend ran in Toronto city, a talk on "Angola and the history of the conquest of Independence". (AllAfrica)

The Bishop of the northern Uije Province, Dom Emílio Sumbelelo, has advised Catholic church youths, and others, to attend technical and professional academic and religious training courses to contribute to the retrieval of ethical and moral values in this society. (AllAfrica)

This year's winner of the Five Roses-Thari ya Sechaba award is Shirley Madikwe, who founded and runs the Gamodubu Child Care Trust. (AllAfrica)

WHICH CHILD IS A CITIZEN OF THE GAMBIA? (AllAfrica)

Speaking at a press conference recently, former treasurer of the Voice of the Young, Yassin Nyan said there is still a lot to be done in terms of respect for the rights of the child in the Gambia; adding that children are sexually abused (rape, incest, exploitation, sexual harassment etc), (AllAfrica)

WHEN Prof. Timothy Wangusa, the presidential adviser on literary affairs, was a little boy, he used to walk 500 metres, everyday to Nambale Pre-Primary School. Wangusa became a literature lecturer and professor at Makerere University and Mukono Christian University, respectively for over 40 years. (AllAfrica)

Churches should embrace conditions that will encourage children to love God, President Yoweri Museveni has urged. "Our children are growing up in a time of moral decadence. Therefore, the church must set conditions that will encourage them to love God," Museveni noted. (AllAfrica)

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has urged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to accept postings to various areas of primary assignment in good faith. (AllAfrica)

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