South Asian Parliamentary Conference for Children of UNICEF

Question: In which city the South Asian parliamentary conference for children of UNICEF was held?
(a) Colombo
(b) Paris
(c) Geneva
(d) Manila
Answer: (a)
Related facts:

  • On 2ndSeptember 2019, the Parliament of Sri Lanka and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted parliamentarians from across South Asia to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
  • At the meeting, parliamentarians took stock of the situation of children in the region and discuss the key challenges towards realization of all rights of all children to ensure further progress.
  • The South Asia Parliamentarian Platform for Children held in Colombo from 2nd to 3rd September provided parliamentarians the opportunity to make fresh commitments to push the national agenda for the realization of child rights.
  • The Convention has helped to transform children’s lives for the better and has ensured that Governments have favorable policies, changed laws, and made investments so that more children get the chance to thrive and have a good, protected childhood.
  • Nevertheless, the Convention is still not fully implemented everywhere, and millions of children continue to suffer violations of their rights when they are denied adequate healthcare, nutrition, education and protection from violence.
  • This is the third year that UNICEF organizes a meeting with parliamentarians from the region to connect them to discuss the situation of children and inspire them to take action for improvement in their lives.
  • The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty.
  • Thirty years on, child rights have not changed, but childhood for about 627 million South Asian children has changed, with the coming of the internet, the effects of climate change, rapid urbanisation and other emerging issues.

Link:
https://www.unicef.org/rosa/press-releases/parliamentarians-across-south-asia-discuss-how-ensure-rights-all-children