UNICEF: Symposium on Child Protection in South Asia

DHAKA, Bangladesh, 21 April 2008 -- Policy makers and experts from eight countries met in Dhaka last week for a symposium to address poverty. The symposium focused on how expanded social protection could serve as a strategy to transform social policy and reduce economic and social vulnerability, especially for children.

Those in attendance at the three-day event noted that social protection is a basic human right and that child-sensitive social protection is needed in South Asia -- a region that is home to over 600 million children.

"People understand instinctively that all children are born with the same rights and that we have an obligation to protect them," said UNICEF Programme Division Deputy Director Yoriko Yasukawa. "It is possible to mobilize political will and achieve more social justice by focusing our attention on children."

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