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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]
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 .
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.
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."
Using a relative measure of child poverty, an impoverished child growing up in a developing country suffers more hardship than most children living in poverty in a developed country. Poverty in these countries is a condition usually characterised by a severe deprivation of basic human needs (UN,1995).
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.
This theory has been explored by Ruby K. Payne in her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty. In this book she explains how a social class system in the United States exists, where there is a wealthy upper class, a middle class, and the working poor class. These classes each have their own set of rules and values, which differ from each other.
UNICEF defines [15] a 'child protection system' as: "The set of laws, policies, regulations and services needed across all social sectors – especially social welfare, education, health, security and justice – to support prevention and response to protection-related risks. These systems are part of social protection, and extend beyond it. At ...