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YOUR TURN TO ASK: Send us your questions for UNICEF chief Ann Veneman
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Jughi children, who live in a makeshift camp, pose for a picture in northern Afghanistan. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
Ann Veneman, Executive Director of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo where she is meeting victims of sexual violence and children who were kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army guerrilla group but managed to escape. UNICEF's top official oversees annual resources of more than $3 billion, funded entirely from voluntary contributions. Since becoming executive director, she has travelled to more than 60 countries to witness the plight of children affected by natural disasters, conflict, disease and exploitation. Before joining UNICEF in 2005, Veneman headed the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Veneman will pass through London on her way back from Congo at the end of the week and will answer your questions about her trip, UNICEF and the issues faced by children around the world, including child labour, trafficking, sexual exploitation, the problem of child soldiers and orphans. You can participate by using the comments section below or by using the #askunicef tag on Twitter . Please send your questions by Tuesday, Sept 1, and we'll get as many of your questions to Veneman as possible. We'll be publishing her replies on AlertNet next week, so keep checking back! New to Twitter? If you aren't using Twitter already but want to post a question or see what other people are asking Veneman through Twitter, just get yourself a Twitter account, search for the #askunicef tag and view all questions. You can post a 140-character question yourself, making sure to use the #askunicef tag somewhere in your post so it sits with all the other posts from people across the Twittersphere.
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28 Aug 2009 09:47:16 GMT
What can we in the US do that will positively impact the lives of these children? Is there anything we can do to help end the conflict? Is there anything we can do to help prevent child abduction?
28 Aug 2009 14:50:41 GMT
How can UNICEF more effectively engage the local communities to help address some of these issues for children, better providing health, education and security while enabling the support and trust required for effective partnerships?
28 Aug 2009 16:46:16 GMT
What is the single most important thing the people of industrialized nations can do to help alleviate poverty and suffering?
29 Aug 2009 11:23:22 GMT
UNICEF was raising its strong protest against children being used as fighters in Sri Lanka's civil war for the last twenty years. Now that the civil war is over and over 100,000 children under the age of 18 are being held as prisoners along with their family members in high security unhealthy muddy camps. Their schools, exams every thing under a security net,even pregnant mothers and their children are held under heavy arm guards,not allowed to go even to hospitals. What action is the UNICEF has taken in the last 100 days to look after the welfare of these abused children.
31 Aug 2009 16:40:08 GMT
What, if anything, is being done to prevent sexual violence against women, children and men in the DRC?