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UNICEF asks all presidential candidates to overcome 6 challenges facing 6 million children The 'Ara Wade, A Vote For Children' campaign was launched. Visit www.arawade.lk to take action and download the report. UNICEF Sri Lanka Arawade UNICEF Sri lanka 18 October 2019

Thirty years ago, Sri Lanka made a historic commitment to protect and fulfill rights children, by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

International law on childhood. Thirty years later, children's rights have not changed but the world in which they live has developed. Global changes, such as digital technology, climate change and mass migration are changing the lives of children today.

Sri Lanka has made some commendable steps, including lifting millions of families out of extreme poverty, drastically reducing the mortality rate for children under 5 years of age and achieving Primary school attendance is almost universal for boys and girls.

But despite Sri Lanka's benefits, there are still many children who cannot live a happy, healthy life and cannot reach their full potential. In order for Sri Lanka to continue on its journey towards a prosperous and just future, not a single child can be left behind.

UNICEF has identified 6 critical problems facing 6 million Sri Lankan children. If this is handled, Sri Lanka will unlock the full potential of its youth and promote the country's sustainable development for generations to come

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To do this, Sri Lanka must:

1.End child malnutrition forever, including by increasing investment in community-based care and treatment of acute malnutrition.

2.Build an education system that prepares our children for the future, including by ensuring that every school places the child at the center. 3.Give every child a fair chance to succeed by ending child poverty, including through the establishment of universal child support, as a concrete way of flattening inequalities, eliminating child poverty and ensuring the right start in life for all children.

4.Prohibit destructive corporal punishment of children, including by legally and explicitly prohibiting acts of physical violence or humiliating acts while promoting and adopting positive methods of disciplining children.

5.Create an inclusive and peaceful Sri Lanka for all, including by implementing the National Action Plan on Education for Social Cohesion and Peace.

6.Fight climate change and prepare Sri Lanka for its impacts, including by prioritizing the conservation and restoration of forests, wetlands and other ecosystems and ensuring all government ministries consider the environmental impacts of future programs, while supporting climate change adaptation.

To mark this landmark moment, and the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Sri Lanka has launched 'Ara Wade: A Vote For Children', a campaign calling on all presidential candidates to publicly commit to addressing these rights. children while they were in office. 'Ara Wade: A Vote For Children' also aims to create awareness among Sri Lankans about the 6 critical needs of children, with communities encouraged to visit (@www.arawade).lk to ask all candidates, via online mail, to make this important commitment.

Download the report 'Ara Wade: A Vote For Children' at (@www.arawade).lk
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