Sarah Ferguson, Forbes: COVID-19 vaccine deliveries provided through COVAX protect vulnerable indigenous groups like the Yuqui in the Bolivian Amazon. The Yuqui community live deep in Bolivia’s Amazon, but that hasn’t kept them safe from communicable diseases like tuberculosis, which kills 10 percent of the population every year, according to UNICEF Bolivia’s Keyla Ávila. Now…
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UNICEF broadcasts messages on the protection of children and adolescents in Chiquitanía
UN Children’s Fund reports: Because the rights of Mother Earth are the rights of children, through an alliance with 32 local broadcasting stations in 17 municipalities in the area affected by the fires UNICEF can broadcast messages about care and protection of the children and adolescents suffering from this emergency. This activity reaches an estimated…
UNICEF is alarmed by Bolivian law that lets 10 years old children work
El Deber reports from Spanish newspaper El Mundo: CHILD LABOR UNICEF is alarmed by Bolivian law that lets 10 years old children work UNICEF has expressed concern about the exceptions in the new Code of Children and Adolescents in Bolivia, which allows children to start working from 10 years on their own. In this sense, the international…
What to do with those Bolivian children who work dangerously?
An important finding that must be resolved ASAP. Marco Curi reports for El Dia: According to data from UNICEF in Bolivia There are 246 thousand children who do dangerous work Studies. UN proposes coordinated work with entrepreneurs. In Bolivia there are 246 thousand children and adolescents, which engage in hazardous work, according to data from…
TIPNIS children and women attacked with tear gas and cold water, winter season in La Paz
Again, current government shows bad timing, arrogance and excessive use of force against children and women of the TIPNIS group. Pagina Siete reported yesterday afternoon on its website: Police repressed with tear gas and water to activists and indigenous people of the TIPNIS Close to 11 a.m. today [July 5, 2012], police launched tear gas…
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