Foreign Affairs committee  The next step, from the lens I have while sitting here in New York and the conversations taking place currently within the next 15-year development agenda, is going to be how do we ensure that the target we currently have, which is looking at child, early, and forced marriage, is

Foreign Affairs committee  That certainly is something that I can bring to my colleagues at UNICEF and make a recommendation to them in terms of carrying that forward.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. We've seen over time that fragile states and situations of both war and internal conflicts within countries are where we are going to see increased prevalence of children affected by that, both as soldiers and as children affected by the conflict itself beyo

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, thank you very much. As you mentioned, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely recognized and ratified document we have. I am pleased to say that recently Somalia has also signed on to the document, so it has become even more ratified. We do have som

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. The services that we find are very helpful.... It's very similar to what we were talking about earlier in terms of the youth engagement. How do you create peer supports for young girls who are mothers? It raises awareness within communities of the impact of

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. One of the things that we've been doing quite a bit at ChildFund Alliance in New York is helping to create awareness about these issues. Part of that has been the work around the post-2015 development agenda. Right now the version of the ou

Foreign Affairs committee  In some areas there's been more progress than others. For example, within the issue of child labour we've seen the numbers of children in hazardous labour down from 171 million in 2000 to 85 million. We are able to show progress. One of the things that the UN Statistical Commiss

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that's correct, sir.