{"id":5369,"date":"2025-06-16T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:45:45","slug":"on-the-day-of-the-african-child-calls-for-fair-budget-allocation-for-childrens-rights-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=5369","title":{"rendered":"On the Day of the African Child: Calls for Fair Budget Allocation for Children\u2019s Rights in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Juba \u2013 Al-Wadi Newspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of the <strong>Day of the African Child<\/strong>, human rights organizations and civil campaigns have called on governments and relevant stakeholders to prioritize planning and allocate sufficient budgets to protect and promote children&#8217;s rights in South Sudan. This call comes amid ongoing challenges facing key sectors such as education, child protection, nutrition, and healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this context, <strong>Plan International South Sudan<\/strong> issued a statement on its official Facebook page, affirming that <em>\u201cInvesting in children is an investment in peace, development, and the future of the nation,\u201d<\/em> stressing that <em>every child deserves a fair chance to grow, learn, and live with dignity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children-related sectors in South Sudan suffer from a <strong>severe lack of funding<\/strong>, exposing millions of children to growing risks\u2014most notably school dropouts, malnutrition, and lack of access to basic healthcare\u2014amid repeated calls for immediate action to change this reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization also launched a social media awareness campaign using the hashtags:<br>#DayOfTheAfricanChild<br>#Budget4Children<br>#ChildrensRights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This call is part of broader efforts to promote social justice for children and to reaffirm that <strong>the future of any nation begins with the care and protection of its children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba \u2013 Al-Wadi Newspaper On the occasion of the Day of the African Child, human rights organizations and civil campaigns have called on governments and relevant stakeholders to prioritize planning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}