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UNICEF ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan in education

24 August 2016 [18:00] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Amina Nazarli


The new head of UNICEF Baku Office, Edward Carwardine, expressed the organization’s readiness to maintain cooperation with the country in the field of pre-school education.

During his meeting with Azerbaijani Ombudswoman Elmira Suleymanova, Carwardine said that pre-school education had always been one of the key priorities for UNICEF.

 He hailed the work of Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman office, especially the activity of the Leadership School of the Azerbaijan Child and Youth Peace Network.

Carwardine also commended the improvement of inclusive education system in Baku and in the country’s regions, as well as the increasing number of kindergartens.

Suleymanova, in turn, highlighted the Azerbaijani government’s child and youth policy, saying that children and teenagers form the majority of the country’s society.

She further hailed the Heydar Aliyev Foundation’s role in this regard. “State-of-the-art specialized centers are being established for the disabled children in the country,” Suleymanova emphasized.

Suleymanova went on to say that the Azerbaijani government attached great attention to the protection and promotion of children’s rights.

“A hot-line was set up to address the problems of children, whose rights were violated,” she said. “Since Azerbaijan does not have an Ombudsman institution for the children’s rights, there is a Special Adviser dealing with this issue under the Ombudsman office.”
 

The Human Rights Commissioner also highlighted the activity of the Leadership School of the Azerbaijan Child and Youth Peace Network.

UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child around the world. The organization work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children.

UNICEF came to Azerbaijan in 1993, facing an army of refugees and internally displaced people in the wake of the Karabakh conflict and the collapsed economy of the transition period.

Its first programmes were devised not only to address national development priorities, but also deal with immediate humanitarian needs. UNICEF’s first country programme for 1995-1999 focused on such urgent needs as immunization, health, rehabilitation, nutrition, education and child protection. 

The UNICEF Country Programme for 2016-2020 will support Azerbaijan in its efforts to accelerate the realization of children’s rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to contribute to the results related to child and adolescent rights stipulated in the “Azerbaijan 2020: Look in the Future” Concept of Development, as well as other sectoral policies and strategies.

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