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[3] The label of "orphans and vulnerable children" probably originated in the early 1990s, evolving from the phrase "children affected by AIDS and other vulnerable children", as the United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) brought attention to children who were being greatly affected by the AIDS epidemic. [ 4 ]
UNICEF (/ ˈ j uː n i ˌ s ɛ f / YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
Undue hardship, in employment law and other areas Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hardship .
Note: Only countries from UNICEF's official list are included. It appears that some surveys are based on the MICS tools, but not included in the list, e.g. Botswana 2007-08 Family Health Survey [14] and Bangladesh 2009 Progotir Pathey (MICS). [15] The total number of countries having ever conducted a MICS (or plan to do so) is 123.
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."
[3] The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) defines children living in poverty as those that "experience deprivation of the material, spiritual and emotional resources needed to survive, develop and thrive, leaving them unable to enjoy their rights, achieve their full potential or participate as full and equal members of society." [4]
The national office falls under the UNICEF ROSA. [3] UNICEF Pakistan works with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education, Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Provincial Social Welfare Departments, NGOs, and other UN agencies to protect children from abuse, exploitation, violence, and discrimination.
A migrant who fled their home because of economic hardship is an economic migrant, and strictly speaking, not a displaced person.; If the displaced person was forced out of their home because of economically driven projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam in China, the situation is referred to as development-induced displacement.