UNICEF
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, works in 190 countries and is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children.
Meeting Southern Sudan's former 'child soldiers'
This blog is written by Pernille Ironside, a child protection specialist for UNICEF, who serves as the organisation's global focal point on the use and recruitment of children by armed forces and groups. She is currently based at UNICEF Headquarters in New York. We arrive in the small town of Awiel at the start of a trip that will take us through three states in Southern Sudan and close to the troubled areas of South Darfur in the north of Sudan. ...
