D. Use of children

Among the 60 Child Councillors who participated, ten were Child Ambassadors.

The Child Ambassadors' Scheme

UNICEF will focus on enabling participation by children whose voices are rarely heard, such as poor and disabled children and girls.

States Parties shall promote public awareness of the effects of the sale of children, child pornography and child prostitution.

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The combination of this rate with the mortality rate after childhood reaches 246 deaths per 1000 livings children.

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States Parties in accordance with international norms for the protection of children promote education, information and public awareness of the effects of the sale of children, child pornography and child prostitution.

All such use is in violation of article 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Finally, it stressed that parents, children and professionals should be educated on the rights of the child and on their roles so as to enable children to exercise their rights.

63. UNICEF, working in partnership with child focused NGOs, including Radda Barnen and Save the Children Fund UK, reunited approximately 300 children with their families.

The European Convention on the Exercise of Children apos s Rights facilities the exercise of the substantive rights of children by strengthening and creating procedural rights which may be exercised by children themselves or through other persons or bodies.

UNICEF is supporting projects on the prevention of the recruitment of children in armed conflict, the demobilization of ex child soldiers, the reunification of children separated from their family and the protection and psychosocial reintegration of children affected by armed conflict and organized violence.

States Parties undertake to arrange for appropriate publicity warning the public of the harmful effects of the sale of children, child pornography and child prostitution.

(g) To take measures to ensure that all those who work with and for children protect children from bullying and implement preventive and anti bullying policies

208. According to several reports, children are used in the conflict, even by FAZ, which is believed to have recruited them in Kisangani and Kindu, although there is no confirmation of the fact.

One of the most harmful areas in which children may be subjected to violence, both physical and mental, is child prostitution.

For example, UNICEF apos s 1996 mission statement and the Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasized such cooperation.

Child abductions, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and the denial of access to vital services have a profound impact on children.

A child vaccination campaign was implemented with the financial and technical support of UNICEF, targeted to reach 2 to 3 million children.

64. Handicapped children are particular targets for the recruiters of beggars who believe that the handicap will induce sympathy in the giver.

States Parties through education, information and participation of the public at large including children (shall) promote awareness (of the society) of the (harmful) effects of the sale of children, child pornography and child prostitution.

II. SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Children At the Clinic for Children apos s Diseases

Bearing in mind that the majority of the child victims in the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography are from developing countries,

The Decade should make it possible to consolidate progress in the sphere of safeguarding the rights of the child and in improving awareness of the problems of war affected children by making children a priority in all development programmes.

Sale of children, child Ms. O. Calcetas Santos 1998

E. Protection of children from violence, abuse and exploitation

Access to the database has also been granted to UNICEF.

Such groups include girls, children living in poverty, children with disabilities, children belonging to indigenous or minority groups, children from migrant families, children without parental care, children living in institutions, children living with their mothers in prisons, refugee and asylum seeking children, children infected with or affected by HIV AIDS, and children of alcohol or drug addicted parents.

Child protection groups protest that most children have been left out of the disarmament process through the restriction of access for child soldiers, that is, children who turn in arms.

Also in Lebanon, the child to child methodology was used to involve children in planning, implementing and evaluating activities under the supervision of skilled animators.

Finally, the Special Representative will endeavour to bring together countries in subregional groupings in which children face common threats, such as cross border small arms trade, the use of landmines, child abductions or child recruitment into armed groups.

(b) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and

protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children,

Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child children with disabilities prevention and eradication of the sale of children, and of their sexual exploitation, including child prostitution and child pornography protection of children affected by armed conflict refugee and internally displaced children elimination of the exploitation of child labour the plight of children living and or working on the streets the girl child

18. Also calls upon all States to remove educational disparities and make education accessible to children living in poverty, children living in remote areas, children with special educational needs, children affected by armed conflict and children requiring special protection, including refugee children, migrant children, street children, children deprived of their liberty, indigenous children and children belonging to minorities

23. Also calls upon all States to remove educational disparities and make education accessible to children living in poverty, children living in remote areas, children with special educational needs, children affected by armed conflict and children requiring special protection, including refugee children, migrant children, street children, children deprived of their liberty, indigenous children and children belonging to minorities

In 2005 it launched with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the first National Child Health Day, which enabled some 2 million children to receive vitamin A supplements and other health services.

Considering that States Parties should strengthen cooperation in providing assistance, rehabilitation and repatriation where this is appropriate to child victims of sale, prostitution and pornography,

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

Child prostitution and pornography and the use of child labour continued to exist.

Education not only protects children, it builds and gives them a sense of purpose and of a more positive future.

As a result of armed conflicts in the past decade, 2 million children were dead and 6 million maimed.