Lagos, UNICEF launch VAC campaign Feb 24 2016

LAGOS State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will be in attendance as the Lagos State government in collaboration with UNICEF launches the Lagos State Violence Against Children, VAC, campaign tomorrow February 24, 2016. The event which holds at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos is in direct response to the Presidential Launch of the Year of Action to End Violence Against Children in September 2015. Lagos is the first state to launch its own VAC priority response. 

President Muhammed Buhari had called upon all states to launch their own priority actions to respond to the shocking findings from the Nigeria Violence Against Children Survey. Lagos State Priority Actions sets out the short-term and long-term strategies to be implemented by Lagos state in response to the findings of the VAC survey. Also to grace the occasion is the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on Violence Against Children, Ms. Marta Santos Pais. Others include UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Ms. Jean Gough; US Mission in Nigeria Dehab Ghebreab , among others.

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