As the world marks Universal Children’s Day today, UNICEF is urging much stronger attention to be paid to the millions of children around the world, in every country and at every social level of society who are victims of violence and abuse that continue to go unnoticed and under-reported.
A release from UNICEF, noted that data from the Guyana Child Care and Protection Agency indicated that for the period January to June 2013 there were 1,717 reported cases of abuse involving children. Of those cases, 59 per cent involved girls and 41 per cent involved boys. It said that however,
