O Governo de Timor-Leste lamentou hoje a campanha do Fundo da ONU para a Infância (UNICEF) e da organização Save The Children, considerando que os dados fornecidos são incorretos e que visam apenas procurar financiamento para projetos. (Sic Notícias)
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"Globally fewer than five percent of children with disabilities are attending school, and in some cases the figure is less than one percent. UNICEF and Australian will partner in a new initiative to change this unacceptable situation.
With Australia’s support, UNICEF will revise its Child Friendly Schools toolkit for education providers in developing countries to integrate components to make education inclusive and accessible for children with disabilities.
UNICEF will also develop an additional module for education providers, to raise awareness of and target the specific needs of children with disabilities.
This initiative aims to improve the lives of children with special needs and/or disabilities, through improved access to quality education.
“This is imperative,” Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said. “Every child has a right to education, and the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education can only be truly met if we include children with disability.”
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Hilde F. Johnson stated that children with disabilities are the forgotten children of the world, often hidden away, marginalised, and discriminated against.
“But they have the same basic right to education as everyone else. Promoting quality education to children with special learning needs and disabilities will also empower them, and help them achieve their full potential. We urgently need to correct the wrongs of the past and equip schools, teachers and learners to make their right become a reality. Expanding our Child Friendly Schools modules and tools will enable us to do just that,” Ms. Johnson said.
Mr McMullan and Ms Johnson met in New York on 3 September in a panel discussion organised by Australia about meeting the needs of children and young people through the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
According to the Convention, all children have the right to go to school and cannot be excluded from education because of a disability. Countries are bound to realize this right and ensure the education of children with special needs, foster their participation in society, their sense of dignity and the development of their personality."
«There are an estimated 150 million children with disabilities in the world, most of whom live with the reality of exclusion. The vast majority of children with disabilities in developing countries have no access to rehabilitative health care or support services, and many are unable to acquire a formal education.
In many cases, disabled children are simply withdrawn from community life; even if they are not actively shunned or maltreated, they are often left without adequate care. Where special provision is made for children with disabilities, it often still involves segregating them in institutions - the proportion of disabled children living in public institutions has increased, for instance, in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe since the onset of political transition.
Many disabilities are directly attributable to deprivations of essential goods and services, especially in early childhood. Lack of prenatal care adds to the risk of disability, while malnutrition can result in stunting or poor resistance to disease. Disabilities resulting from poor nutrition or lack of vaccines must be addressed by concerted action and donor support. The worldwide assault on polio - a major cause of disability in the past - has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the disease, from 350,000 cases in 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched, to under 1,255 at the end of 2004.
Between 250,000 and 500,000 children are still blinded each year by Vitamin A deficiency, a syndrome easily prevented by an annual capsule costing just two cents.
Children involved in hazardous labour or who have been conscripted as soldiers face greatly heightened risks of disabling injury. Landmines and explosive remnants of war continue to maim or disable children even in countries that are no longer in conflict. Of the 65 countries where children suffered mine causalities between 2002 and 2003, nearly two thirds had not experienced active conflict during the period.
Regardless of the cause, children with disabilities require special attention. Otherwise, they risk being excluded from school and within their societies, communities and even households.» (UNICEF)
De acordo com uma notícia da Lusa, baseada em um relatório da UNICEF, em Timor-Leste e no espaço de um ano, a mortalidade infantil quase duplicou. Esses dados referem-se aos anos de 2006 e 2007 (espero que em 2008 a situação se inverta, leia-se, se tenha invertido e que, em 2009, esses valores diminuam drasticamente [adenda às 19h25])"A mortalidade infantil em Timor-Leste quase duplicou num ano, revela o relatório anual da UNICEF, que aponta Angola como país lusófono com maiores progressos nesta matéria e a Guiné-Bissau como o pior.
Em Timor-Leste, o número de crianças que não atingem os cinco anos de idade passou de 55 por mil em 2006 para 97 por mil em 2007, de acordo com o relatório anual sobre a situação das crianças no mundo da Agência das Nações Unidas para a infância (UNICEF), divulgado hoje.
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Em Timor-Leste, 12 por cento das crianças nascem com baixo peso e das 48 mil nascidas em 2007, 77 em mil tinham probabilidade de morrer antes de completarem um ano de idade.
Apenas 53 por cento das crianças estão registadas e as que têm entre cinco e 14 anos e que trabalham rondam os quatro por cento.
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Segundo o relatório, em 2007, 9,2 milhões de crianças morreram antes de atingir cinco anos de idade, 50 por cento das quais em África, que, segundo a UNICEF, "permanece como a região mais difícil do mundo para a sobrevivência de uma criança até aos cinco anos de idade"." (CFF | Lisboa, 15 Jan | Lusa)"
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«[...] As the leader of Timor-Leste, the world's youngest democracy, President Jose Ramos-Horta is building and developing an education sector that must reintegrate both returning refugees and internally displaced persons.
During a recent UN Radio discussion on education in emergencies, Mr. Ramos-Horta spoke of the Timorese community’s attitudes about schooling since the country gained independence.
"There is an extraordinary desire, on the part of the parents, but also on the youth, to go to school," he said." [...]» (United Nations Children's Fund, 02 Jan 2008)
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