Building the relations with parliamentarians for children in Kachin: Champions for children’s rights

For the first time ever, UNICEF Myanmar organised a three day workshop with Kachin state Parliament, aiming at strengthening the relationship with the parliamentarians and to advocate for children’s rights. The first part of the workshop focussed on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), specific child rights concerns in Kachin and Parliament’s role as champions for children’s rights. UNICEF’s Child Protection Team then zoomed in on one key concern for children in Kachin - Mine Action Awareness.

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအတြက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အဖြဲ႕ဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဆက္ဆံေရး တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္း - ကေလးသူငယ္အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ ရပ္တည္ကာကြယ္သူမ်ား

ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္အျဖစ္ ယူနီဆက္ဖ္ျမန္မာက ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ ၃ ရက္ အလုပ္႐ံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မွာ လႊတ္ေတာ္အဖြဲ႕ဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဆက္ဆံေရး ေကာင္းမြန္ေစရန္ႏွင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ ေျပာၾကားေပးရန္ ျဖစ္သည္။ အလုပ္႐ံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ပထမပိုင္းတြင္ ကေလးသူငယ္အခြင့္အေရးဆုိင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢညီလာခံ (CRC)၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ကေလးသူငယ္အခြင့္အေရးဆုိင္ရာ အဓိက စိုးရိမ္စရာမ်ားႏွင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္ အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ ရည္တည္ကာကြယ္သူမ်ားအျဖစ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္၏ အခန္းက႑တုိ႔ကို အဓိကထားေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္။ ထုိ႔ေနာက္ ယူနီဆက္ဖ္၏ ကေလးသူငယ္ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕က ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ကေလးမ်ားအတြက္ အဓိက စိုးရိမ္စရာတစ္ခုျဖစ္ေသာ မိုင္းအႏၱရာယ္သတိျပဳမႈေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေျပာဆုိခဲ့သည္။

UNICEF Supports the First Ever Mine Risk Education Workshop in Myanmar

Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 7 November 2012:  UNICEF and the Department of Social Welfare, the Ministry of Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement, together with Danish Church Aid inaugurated a workshop on Mine Risk Education and Humanitarian Mine Action in Nay Pyi Taw from 7 to 9 November 2012.  The international workshop is the first of its kind held in the country to exchange ideas, experiences and lessons to strengthen common knowledge and advance the Mine Action agenda in Myanmar.

Young group in Myanmar tell their stories

©UNICEF Myanmar/2012
Ma Yi Mon Oo and Ma Poe Pwint Phyu at the five-day writing skill workshop for children held in Myin Chan. 

 By Sandar Linn

 

Tin Htun Wai, 16, found an unprecedented pouring of his heartfelt thoughts and words as he connected his pen with the paper. All those thoughts that he has been keeping to himself have found a way out as he was asked to put into practice what he learnt about writing this week.