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The NGO Committee on UNICEF was established in 1952 to encourage cooperation between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and UNICEF, with a view to improving the well-being of children everywhere. It currently comprises 125 organizations, and is run by an elected board with headquarters in New York. The Committee publishes a newsletter and opened a website for the Special Session on Children on Saturday, January 27, 2001.
In early 2001, AP was contracted by the NGO Committee to cover the Special Assembly of the United Nations General Assembly on Children, originally scheduled for September 2001, but subsequently held in early May 2002. This work received funding from three different sources, which allowed AP to produce a substantial number of products for the NGO Committee: a website; 30 issues of a newsletter On the Record for Children, an email distribution list of almost a thousand subscribers and training sessions for young journalists.
On the Record for Children showed how a larger information package can be built around a professional, timely and regular newsletter. During the Special Session, AP's team of reporters produced material from the Session every day, which was then reproduced as a daily tabloid newspaper with a print run of 2,500 copies. This was distributed to delegates. The same material was sent out daily via email to almost a thousand subscribers, and posted daily on a website that was designed for the NGO committee by AP. This meant that the material reached the widest possible audience.
The printed version of On the Record for Children at the Special Session in May 2002 played an important role in keeping NGOs informed about secret negotiations over the conference document. During the negotiations no NGOs were allowed access to the discussions. The essential nature of the coverage was acknowledged by Mary Purcell, the co-chair of the NGO Committee on UNICEF, which contracted AP: "Bravo! You did a superb job with On the Record! With the formal negotiations behind closed doors, the newspaper became even more important for NGOs. You targeted the issues well and kept NGOs better informed than we thought possible when the week began. Everyone looked forward to the next issue. Those newspapers will be a significant contribution to the permanent record of NGO participation in the UNGASS for Children."
Another important aspect of this project was the involvement of children on the editorial team. Half of the writers were under the age of 21. This allowed AP to implement one of the key goals of the meeting, namely improving the participation of children and young people.
AP also held daily training sessions for young writers at the third Preparatory Committee Meeting and Special Session, which helped young participants to identify and write stories for On the Record for Children. Yelena Ovcharenko, a 15 year old writer who worked with On the Record for Children in June 2001 wrote: "We the children of the UN newspaper would like to thank AP's patient and hardworking staff for putting up with our amateur writing and our attitudes. We would like to thank you for giving us the best days of our lives. 'CPACIBO -- (thank you in Russian) -- for being willing to work with us because together we have made a difference."
One of the training sessions even encouraged young journalists from Vietnam and Guayana to start planning a network of young journalists. This new initiative was highlighted on UNICEF's website.
You can read the issues of On the Record for Children on the AP website.
April 2002
Concern as US, UK and Australia Seek to Dilute UN Study on Violence Against Children
December 2001
Up to 300,000 Children Sexually Abused in US Annually, According to NGO Newsletter
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| Mission |
The NGO Committee on UNICEF was established in 1952 to encourage cooperation between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and UNICEF, with a view to improving the well-being of children everywhere. It currently comprises 125 organizations, and is run by an elected board with headquarters in New York. The Committee publishes a newsletter and opened a website for the Special Session on Children on Saturday, January 27, 2001.
| Advocacy |
- The NGO Committee on UNICEF has three permanent working groups: the working group on girls, education and disability. The Committee also develops various working groups as needed.
- The NGO Committee on UNICEF held governments to account for their policies and programs on children by producing a 'commitment chart' that was displayed throughout the Special Session.
- The draft outcome document prepared for the Special Session was criticized by NGOs for paying too much attention to traditional child survival and too little to protection.
- A working group of the NGO Committee on UNICEF used the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to advocate on behalf of girls in the run-up to the Special Session.
- The Working Group on Girls of the NGO Committee on UNICEF prepared new fact sheets on the status of girls in the law and in poverty. One fact sheet, on girls and the law, covered such topics as birth registration, inheritance laws, consensual marriage and domestic labor. The group also helped prepare a fact sheet on early marriage for a Special Session panel co-sponsored with the World Association for Girl Guides. The Working Group on Girls also prepared material on girls and HIV/AIDS, the trafficking of girls, health issues pertaining to girls, education for girls, violence against girls, and the economic exploitation of girls.
- Sandrine Valentine, of the Working Group on Armed Conflict in the NGO Committee on UNICEF, has put together a comprehensive catalog of UN resolutions and informed opinions relating to the situation of children in armed conflict.
- The NGO Committee on UNICEF has an ‘Unregistered Children Project' that was started in 1996.
| Information/ News from the NGO Committee on UNICEF |
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The NGO Committee on UNICEF has a page that contains their photographs of meetings and projects.
| Dissemination Cartoons in the daily newspaper, On the Record for Children, struck a cord with activists, delegates and youth.  |
- AdvocacyNet
In early 2001, AP was contracted by the NGO Committee to cover the Special Assembly of the United Nations General Assembly on Children, originally scheduled for September 2001, but subsequently held in early May 2002. This work received funding from three different sources, which allowed AP to produce a substantial number of products for the NGO Committee: a website; 30 issues of a newsletter On the Record for Children, an email distribution list of almost a thousand subscribers and training sessions for young journalists.
On the Record for Children showed how a larger information package can be built around a professional, timely and regular newsletter. During the Special Session, AP's team of reporters produced material from the Session every day, which was then reproduced as a daily tabloid newspaper with a print run of 2,500 copies. This was distributed to delegates. The same material was sent out daily via email to almost a thousand subscribers, and posted daily on a website that was designed for the NGO committee by AP. This meant that the material reached the widest possible audience.
The printed version of On the Record for Children at the Special Session in May 2002 played an important role in keeping NGOs informed about secret negotiations over the conference document. During the negotiations no NGOs were allowed access to the discussions. The essential nature of the coverage was acknowledged by Mary Purcell, the co-chair of the NGO Committee on UNICEF, which contracted AP: "Bravo! You did a superb job with On the Record! With the formal negotiations behind closed doors, the newspaper became even more important for NGOs. You targeted the issues well and kept NGOs better informed than we thought possible when the week began. Everyone looked forward to the next issue. Those newspapers will be a significant contribution to the permanent record of NGO participation in the UNGASS for Children."
Another important aspect of this project was the involvement of children on the editorial team. Half of the writers were under the age of 21. This allowed AP to implement one of the key goals of the meeting, namely improving the participation of children and young people.
AP also held daily training sessions for young writers at the third Preparatory Committee Meeting and Special Session, which helped young participants to identify and write stories for On the Record for Children. Yelena Ovcharenko, a 15 year old writer who worked with On the Record for Children in June 2001 wrote: "We the children of the UN newspaper would like to thank AP's patient and hardworking staff for putting up with our amateur writing and our attitudes. We would like to thank you for giving us the best days of our lives. 'CPACIBO -- (thank you in Russian) -- for being willing to work with us because together we have made a difference."
One of the training sessions even encouraged young journalists from Vietnam and Guayana to start planning a network of young journalists. This new initiative was highlighted on UNICEF's website.
You can read the issues of On the Record for Children on the AP website.
April 2002
Concern as US, UK and Australia Seek to Dilute UN Study on Violence Against Children
December 2001
Up to 300,000 Children Sexually Abused in US Annually, According to NGO Newsletter
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- AP helped the NGO Committee on UNICEF develop a website that was part of an integrated package of information support developed around the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children held in May 2002. AP also produced an email newsletter in the lead up to the session and a daily newspaper at the special session.
| Institution Building |
- The NGO Committee went through a major restructuring in 2001. Instead of downsizing, belt-tightening and layoffs, it expanded with the potential to include representation from NGOs in every country. By November 2001, it hoped to have a new structure in place that will include a global forum made up of nine regional representatives and six international NGO members.
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