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The WHO South-East Asia Regional Office in collaboration with UNICEF organized a 3-day virtual meeting from 27 to 29 April, 2021. The meeting brought together over 100 participants from WHO-SEAR countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka , Thailand and Timor-Leste) and two countries from UNICEF-ROSA (Afghanistan Pakistan). Participants included government delegates from relevant ministries (health, nutrition, education, child protection, women and child affairs), WHO and UNICEF staff and partners.
On Day 1, participants reflected on progress to date…
Save the Children Sweden, Regional Office for South and Central Asia and UNIFEM, South Asia Regional Office came together in Kathmandu, Nepal on 17-19 October 2005 to capacitate twenty four development professionals from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sweden to equip men and boys to become more caring, attentive and gender sensitive fathers and husbands, in turn helping themselves, their families and the society at large.
This report presents a background and rationale as to why it is important to engage men and fathers in caregiving, an overview of work being done within the…
BICON is an inter-agency cooperation of 8 leading international NGOs focused on alternative care for children.
Since 2014, BICON has been a leading conference focussed on the rights of children and young people without parental care (CWPC).
The 5th Biennial International Conference on Alternative Care for Children in Asia (BICON) will take place over two days, on 6-7th September 2023, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
This event will be hosted both in person and online, with practitioners, government representatives, academics, and young people with lived experience…
Time: 08:00 - 9:30 am in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Orphanage trafficking involves the recruitment and/or transfer of children to residential care institutions for a purpose of exploitation and profit. It typically takes place in lower- and middle-income countries where child protection services systems are highly privatized, under-regulated, and primarily funded by overseas sources. Orphanage trafficking crimes are…