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EDITOR IN CHIEF- ABDULLAH BIN SALIM AL SHUEILI

Sayyidah Mona meets UN Secretary General Representative, UNICEF Executive Director

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New York: Sayyidah Dr Mona bint Fahd al Said, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) for International Cooperation, Chairperson of Children First Association, met with Najat Maalla Mjid, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children in New York.


The meeting touched on the role of the Sultanate in issues of child protection and the Sultanate's interest in issues of child protection and the rejection of all types of violence.


The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children praised the pioneering role of the Sultanate in enacting laws on the criminalization of children abuses.


Sayyidah Dr Mona invited Najat Maalla Mjid to be one of the keynote speakers at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) International Congress, which will be held for the first time in the Sultanate in September 2019.


On the sidelines of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, Sayyidah Dr Mona met with Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. The two sides discussed the most important work of the Children First Association, in addition to the mechanisms for strengthening the joint efforts of the UNICEF and the Association to achieve the objectives behind its establishment. --ONA


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