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  The International Day for the Elimination of Child Labour is being celebrated each year on June 12 th . As we celebrate the World Day Against Child Labour 2021, with the theme “Act Now: End Child Labour!” we should focus on actions that will eliminate child labour in our community and country at large. This day was unanimously adopted in a UN General Assembly resolution in 2019 and was aimed to urge government to do what is necessary to achieve Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’S). A child is every human being below the age of 18 years. Child Labour is work that deprives a child or children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity. Child labour harms children mentally, physically, socially and morally. It interferes with their schooling, preventing them from attending or concentrating. It may involve them being enslaved, separated from their families, and exposed to serious hazards and illness. The socio-political crisis in Cameroon and the...

  Initiated by a German-based NGO WASH United in 2014, World Menstrual Hygiene Day (WMHD) is an annual awareness day to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management. Observed on May 28, the commemoration seeks to acknowledge that 28 days is the average length of the menstrual cycle. World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021, aims to create awareness and change negative perceptions around menstrual hygiene. Menstruation, period or monthly, is the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.    This year’s theme, “Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health”, is clarion call for tax free pads or free provision of pads like the case of Condoms. This clarion call is as a result of the fact that approximately 800 million women and girls are having their period right now, yet across the globe, they face barriers to properly manage them. This calls for a world free of period poverty and stigma and ...