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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)

Deputy Youth Minister Thamsanqa Mahlangu has revealed that over 80 000 young Zimbabweans have passed through the controversial 'Border Gezi' youth service programme. Graduates from the camps have a long and notorious history of harassing, beating and torturing opposition activists. (AllAfrica)

Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition. (AllAfrica)

Some 1.6 million children throughout Guinea are receiving vaccinations, nutritional supplements and mosquito nets in a bid by UNICEF and the Health Ministry to shore up children's health, which experts say has been hit hard by unrest in recent years. (AllAfrica)

Exactly 20 years ago, on 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which sets universal standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below the age of 18 years. (AllAfrica)

THE summary expulsion of three student leaders -- Vivid Gwede, Samson Nxumalo and Kurayi Hoyi, and the fateful, two-year suspension of six other student activists namely, Sheunesu Nyoni, Power Mabhoyi, Edius Mucheuka, Kudakwashe Maguchu, Nyasha Nyakura and Emmanuel Munyenyiwa, by the National University of Science and Technology administration is a classical instance of just addressing the symptoms rather than the causes of the demonstrations over exorbitant tertiary fees, which have reduced the status of our education sector. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has urged the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), Coalition of NGOs in Tobacco Control (CNTC), and the Media Alliance in Tobacco Control (MATCO), to educate the youth on the hazardous effects of tobacco use and exposure, to sensitise the public and other stakeholders on the previsions of the Tobacco Control Bill, its passage, and enforcement. (AllAfrica)

Non-governmental organisations have launched a joint campaign with the Police to fight human sacrifice in Uganda. (AllAfrica)

THE Government has earmarked sh30b to fight unemployment among the youth, a government official has said. (AllAfrica)

By now everybody must have read the story of the little 14- year-old girl from Bushenyi who captured local and international headlines by hitting her would-be defiler with a stone. The man died later. (AllAfrica)

THE Police and health authorities have rescued two children who were starved by their parents in two separate incidences in Mityana and Rakai districts. (AllAfrica)

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has dropped charges against the 14-year-old girl who killed a 40-year-old man who tried to defile her. (AllAfrica)

IN AN apparent reference to controversial African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema, legal luminary George Bizos said yesterday young people needed to learn to be moderate and not use violence or abusive language when addressing issues. (AllAfrica)

The Vice-Chancellor of Bayero Univerity, Kano, Prof. Attahiru Jega (OFR), has called on the private sector to support the institution for the forthcoming West Africa University Games Football and Hockey competition. (AllAfrica)

A top United Nations human rights official today welcomed a deal agreed by a former rebel group in southern Sudan to end the use of child soldiers among its ranks, while warning of the threat posed to children by various armed militia operating in the region. (AllAfrica)

The bizarre killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania has evoked deep fear and anxiety in the two countries, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says. (AllAfrica)

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) stands as a universal standard for building a better world for the best interest of the children, says Executive Director, UNICE, Ann Veneman. (AllAfrica)

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