Nigeria

GENEVA – Georgia violated its child rights obligations by failing to take immediate intervention to address the frequent physical and psychological abuse of children who lived in a close-type orphanage run by the Georgian Orthodox Church, the UN Child Rights Committee has found.

Israel and Egypt agreed to allow at least 19 sick children, most of them cancer patients, to leave Gaza for medical treatment on Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, in the first major evacuation of critically ill Gazans since the Rafah border crossing shut down in early May.

Paris Hilton has called for change to youth treatment facilities and described her own traumatic experience of alleged abuse before a U.S. congressional committee. The American socialite and businesswoman said she was "force-fed medications and sexually abused by staff" after being sent to a private youth facility in Utah as at a teenager. Her testimony shines a light on the so-called "troubled teen industry".

The Child Protection Specialist supports the development and preparation of the Child Protection programme(s) and is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of the child protection programmes/projects within the country programme.

As the death toll in Gaza continues to grow amid Israel’s punishing bombardment of the Strip, so too does another statistic: the missing children. To date, at least 21,000 children are missing amid the chaos of the war, according to a new report by Save the Children.

This global scoping review aimed to examine the extent and nature of existing literature on the influence of adverse childhood experiences and resilience on the cognitive, physical, mental, and social health outcomes among older adults.

The consultant will work closely with UNICEF’s Kyiv and field Offices, notably within the various teams and thematic areas of child protection work, with key governmental counterparts leading the various components of return and reintegration (Ombudsman’s Office, Coordination Centre on Care Reform, Ministry of Social Policy, National Social Service, Regional Child Affairs Services, Regional Social Services, etc.) as well as with UNICEF’s implementing partners.

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Updated Checklist for the Integration of Protection of Children Affected by Armed Conflict into the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Missions and Operations