UNICEF

UNICEF Romania and the Chamber of Deputies organized the second edition of the UNICEF gala Thursday evening at the Parliament Palace, an event that marks the International Day of Children's Rights with the aim of raising funds for vulnerable children.

More than 12,000 cases of abuse, neglect and child exploitation are officially recorded each year in Romania, but these represent only some of the total number of cases of violence against children, according to a report by the UN's children organisation UNICEF.

President Rosen Plevneliev has assured that Bulgaria will continue to support the UNICEF mission aimed at deinstitutionalization in the child care system.

Plevneliev expressed Bulgaria's stance at a meeting with Anthony Lake, the Executive Director of UNICEF, according to the press office of the President.

Around 120 million girls around the world, close to one in 10, have been raped or sexually assaulted by the time they turn 20, a new UN report has found.
      
In a global study of violence against children, the child welfare agency UNICEF reveals that one fifth of all murder victims are children and adolescents under age 20.
      

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin conferred with UNICEF Serbia Representative Michel Saint-Lot in Belgrade on Wednesday on the Ministry's child care improvement plan and further cooperation with this international organization.