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Meeting on children and women’s rights

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    Representatives of governments, NGOs and UN agencies on Tuesday began a four-day meeting in Lome on the promotion of children and women’s rights, organised by the UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa.

    The aims of the meeting include contributing to the integration of a rights-based approach in government policies and programmes and identifying opportunities to advocate for mainstreaming children’s and women’s rights within government, according to UNICEF.

    The meeting, which ends on Friday, is also meant to prepare a specific strategy for the West and Central Africa Region’s participation in the global “Beijing+5” meeting to be held in New York in June.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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