PHOTO: NIGERIA: In 1997 in Nigeria, three boys who used to live on the streets sit together holding mugs at a remand home for young offenders or abandoned children in Lagos, the country’s commercial capital. Some 10,000 children live on the city’s streets. From broken homes or extremely poor families, they often cannot find steady jobs and are at high risk of turning to drugs or becoming involved in crimes or other violence. (UNICEF/ HQ97-1159/Giacomo Pirozzi)
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Independent Expert Activities February 2007

26-March 9The 51st session of the Commission on the Status of Women

In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2007-2009, the priority theme considered by the Commission was “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child” (To know more, click here). With the Division for the Advancement of Women, UNICEF organised a panel discussion on this theme. (To know more about this event click here). Also based on this theme, an online discussion was held from 14 August to 8 September 2006. The Division for the Advancement of Women, in collaboration with UNICEF, also organised an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on this theme. The EGM was hosted by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, from 25 to 28 September 2006 (To see the report of this meeting click here).


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