Children's Rights
Daily Star inks deal with Unicef
The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam and Unicef's representative to Bangladesh Dr Pascal Villeneuve exchange the document of an agreement at The Daily Star Centre in the city yesterday. Photo: STAR
The Daily Star has signed a partnership agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) to promote children's rights in the country. Under the agreement, The Daily Star, country's largest circulated English daily, will publish two special pages every month until December 2013 putting priority on poor urban children, their nutrition status, gender discrimination against girl child and pre-primary education. The objective of the cooperation agreement is to inform and create an enabling environment by publishing important information to uphold children's rights. This project is a follow up of a pilot initiative implemented from September to December last year when the daily had published four special issues and received positive feedback from the readers. Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, and Satya Pal Vohra, OIC, operations of Unicef, signed the agreement on behalf of their organisations. Mahfuz Anam and Dr Pascal Villeneuve, Unicef's representative to Bangladesh, yesterday exchanged the agreement document at a function at The Daily Star Centre. The Daily Star's Deputy Editor Inam Ahmed, News Editor Reaz Ahmad, General Manager (admin) AFM Jamaluddin, Mizanur Rahman, GM (finance and accounts), Sher Ali, GM (advertisement), Selim SH Chowdhury, GM (production and events), Shima Islam, chief of Unicef's communication, advocacy and partnership section and Arifa S Sharmin, communication manager of the section, were present.
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