26 November 2015: Today and tomorrow the First African Girls’ Summit on Ending Child Marriage in Africa takes place in Lusaka Zambia. The Faces of Change series prepared for UNICEF for the Summit, profiles advocates in the community who are changing … Continue reading
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African Children’s Charter 25th anniversary
20 November 2015: November 2015 heralds the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). I worked with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child … Continue reading
Zambia: One-Stop Centre for the treatment of child sexual abuse
17 November 2015: “The figures are alarming and steadily rising. We treated 116 children in August, 146 in September, 162 in October,” explains Dr. Lalick Banda, paediatrician at the UNICEF-supported One-Stop Centre for the treatment of child sexual abuse in … Continue reading
Support for sex workers in Turkana, Kenya
26 October 2015: Mercy, 38, sits quietly under the shade of a tree with a dozen other women from a small settlement in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya. All are single mothers, all are sex workers, and all are … Continue reading
South Sudan: Hope for conflict-affected children through agriculture
22 October 2015: At just 10 years of age, Baba worked as a cook for the South Sudan Democratic Army (SSDA) Cobra Faction armed group. Baba was separated from his family for nearly two years. The family were reunited in … Continue reading
Editing and cartoons for UNICEF Ghana
21 September 2015: Ghana with support from UNICEF commissioned a national baseline study on child protection and produced a new Child and Family Welfare Policy based on the findings. I recently produced a reader friendly version of the research and … Continue reading
Children with disabilities in education: Rwanda programme evaluation
1 March 2015: I recently evaluated Chance for Childhood’s Education, Equality and Empowerment (EEE) project in Rwanda, which supports children with disabilities, particularly deaf children, to attend school. Rwanda has undergone a great deal of transformation and progress on disability issues … Continue reading
Don’t tell South Sudan’s children ‘sorry, we should have’
13 October 2014: In May 2014, aid agencies warned of a tipping point in the South Sudan crisis. Famine was deemed inevitable and the UN Security Council identified “risk factors of genocide” and promised to protect civilians from “another Rwanda”. … Continue reading
When the Earth is Cut
2 September 2014: Poem about Indigenous Rights and the environment: Indigenous peoples were one with the land But the earth on which their ancestors Played and prayed and slaughtered and danced Was ripped open by mining, left barren by deforestation … Continue reading
Preferred Collaborator for Minds et Motion
13 May 2014: I have just joined Minds et Motion (MetM) as a Preferred Collaborator. MetM is a multidisciplinary consultancy whose aim is to enable a world where it’s easier for everyone to meaningfully participate in decisions affecting them. They take their clients and