Significant development: UNICEF sees progress in child rights

Newly-appointed Unicef representative says Pakistan has made progress in protecting and promoting the child rights

ISLAMABAD: The newly-appointed Unicef representative in Pakistan, Angela Kearney, has said that Pakistan has made significant progress in protecting and promoting the child rights in recent years. She said that due to increasing number of polio cases in Pakistan, one of the major challenges and priorities in her new function would be Unicef’s continuous support to the country’s polio eradication programme. She made these remarks while presenting her credentials in Islamabad. Angela Kearney, while addressing another ceremony, expressed her gratitude to the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) for providing furniture and other necessary supplies to schools in K-P and Fata. With funds from SFD, Unicef has handed over school supplies including furniture, IT and library equipment of worth $14.4 million to the Education Department, Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, for more than 1,000 schools including 343 girls’ schools in K-P and Fata benefitting more than 128,000 students and teachers.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 31^st, 2014.