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To stop child abuse we must understand what drives abusers’ behaviour

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Having supported the 2011-2015 Children and Violence Report of the Jamaica Crime Observatory (JCO), it was very encouraging to see its findings recently on the cover of The Sunday Gleaner. The JCO is a unit of the Ministry of National Security and a partner of UNICEF. It is important for Jamaicans to see the facts and figures as they… Read more →←

#UNICEFstories: meet the community heroes building a safer future for Jamaican children

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As filmmakers we came to Jamaica to tell stories. We didn’t set out to find any one story rather, we wanted to meet the individuals running local, community programs. The ones who had dedicated their lives to making some small part of their world, their communities, a better place. And so for our films, we realized, these were the… Read more →←

Tiny Stories #foreverychild: Jamaican writers mark UNICEF’s 70th anniversary

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This year on Sunday, November 20, UNICEF marks the 70th anniversary of our work for children. To mark the occasion writers all over the world, including in Jamaica, were asked to each pen a Tiny Story on the theme ‘what I want for every child’. Local children’s author and Fight for Peace country manager, Kellie Magnus, reached out… Read more →←

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