A program on the prevention of child abuse and neglect, funded
by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), was inaugurated
simultaneously in three Chinese provinces Monday.
Wang Daming, a UNICEF's project officer, said at the
inauguration of the five-year program in this capital of east
China's Zhejiang Province that the "Protect Children
from Violence Project" was launched in Zhejiang, Guangdong and Shaanxi provinces.
He said the project carried out under UNICEF's cooperation with
All-China Women's Federation calls for coordination with local
sanitary, civil affairs, public security authorities and
procuratorate and judicial departments in the three provinces to
protect rights of children in their families, communities and
schools.
Wang said UNICEF's the program three objectives are prevention,
intervention and rescue.
Jin Lei, Director of Zhejiang Women and Children Center, said
the project in Zhejiang Province will focus on violence toward
children in schools. While, the program in Guangdong is expected to
focus on monitoring child abuse in families, and Shaanxi's program
to look into child abuse in medical institutions.
According to the UNICEF, millions of children were exposed to
various forms of abuse and neglect in China, especially in outlying
rural areas in central and western regions of the country.
(Xinhua News Agency June 13, 2006)