UNICEF Ask Nigeria States To Adopt The Child Right Acts
The United Nations Children’s Education Fund has called on all Nigeria states to arrogate the Child Rights Acts and heed to President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to end all forms of violence against children.
According to a statement in mark of the recent year Children’s Day, tagged ‘Child Protection and the Sustainable Development Goals’, the UN body said millions of Nigerian children still suffer some form of physical, emotional or sexual violence despite SDGs goal to end the practice by 2030.
2014 survey by the National Population Commission, with support from UNICEF and the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, six out of ten Nigerian children experience at least one of these forms of violence before they reach 18 years old.
“Each one of us is responsible for creating a world where children feel safe, protected and empowered to speak up for themselves,” saidUNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Mohamed Fall.
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