Category Archives for Advocacy

DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD: A CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE AND A CHILD-FRIENDLY JUSTICE SYSTEM.

PRESS RELEASE: Monrovia, June 16 – SOS Children’s Villages Liberia calls on government, policymakers and organizations working with children to protect their rights and ensure equal access to a child-friendly justice system as African governments…
SOS Liberia, Plan International and Save the children: Joining forces to support children affected by COVID-19 outbreak in Liberia.

SOS Liberia, Plan International and Save the children: Joining forces to support children affected by COVID-19 outbreak in Liberia.

Even as the coronavirus pandemic terrorizes the world, there’s another global emergency that child protection and child safeguarding organizations can’t afford to abandon. The virus seemed to be moving from slow to fast, as the…
Children’s rights takes centre stage at UN

Children’s rights takes centre stage at UN

New-York-30-Sept-Children’s rights and their futures played a key role in debates on climate change and the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, both of which are major topics…
SOS Liberia Collaborates with PEACE ONE DAY to Commemorate International Peace Day

SOS Liberia Collaborates with PEACE ONE DAY to Commemorate International Peace Day

MONROVIA, 23 September 2019-SOS Children’s Villages Liberia on the  21st September  joins the United Nations family to celebrate world Peace day. The International Peace Day is celebrated on the  21st September  annually. The celebration of peace day…
SOCIETY HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE TO VULNERABLE CHILDREN

SOCIETY HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE TO VULNERABLE CHILDREN

Our New #iseeyou campaign focuses on children who are invisible! WHY THIS CAMPAIGN? Children are neglected, abandoned, abused, orphaned or displaced and they are everywhere, but we don’t always see them. They are invisible. You can…
Protecting the Rights of the Child: SOS Children’s Villages Liberia launched New Initiative to Strengthen Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms

Protecting the Rights of the Child: SOS Children’s Villages Liberia launched New Initiative to Strengthen Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms

“Ending violence against children is a responsibility of the state, but there is a need to further enhance the implementation of the state child protection mechanisms, through strengthening community reporting mechanisms and changing social behavior…
JOINING FORCES:  CHILD RIGHTS NOW! ‘A SECOND REVOLUTION’ REPORT LAUNCH

JOINING FORCES: CHILD RIGHTS NOW! ‘A SECOND REVOLUTION’ REPORT LAUNCH

On 26 June, SOS Children's Villages together with five leading child-focused organizations launched a new report in New York, A Second Revolution: 30 years of child rights, and the unfinished agenda, which calls on the…
SOS Liberia and Partners Campaign To End Violence Against Children

SOS Liberia and Partners Campaign To End Violence Against Children

Monrovia, June 4-SOS Liberia and other stakeholders embarked on a three Days awareness campaign to end violence against children. The campaign was launched in Monrovia on the 29th of May 2019 under the theme “Let’s…
Q&A with Augustine Allieu, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Liberia

Q&A with Augustine Allieu, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Liberia

GENERAL INFORMATION AND CONTEXT Please share some general and contextual information about Liberia and the situation for children in particular? My name is Augustine Allieu. I am from Sierra Leone. I am the National Director…
Forging Partnership for Quality Child Care: SOS Liberia empowers the Liberia National Children’s Representative Forum (LNCRF).

Forging Partnership for Quality Child Care: SOS Liberia empowers the Liberia National Children’s Representative Forum (LNCRF).

The SOS Children’s Villages Liberia has provided a number of working materials to the Liberian National Children’s Representative Forum (LNCRF) to help boost its capacity to represent and advocate on issues affecting Liberian children. The…