E. Specific protection concerns of unaccompanied and separated adolescent girls and boys

School enrolment can keep adolescent girls and boys occupied and shield them from exploitative activities and abuse.

As interventions tend to focus on younger children, adolescent girls and boys are often neglected in planning and programming.

(i) To make information and counselling widely available to adolescent girls and boys, especially on human relationships, reproductive and sexual heath, sexually transmitted diseases and adolescent pregnancy, in a manner that is confidential and easily accessible, and to emphasize the equal responsibility of girls and boys

Adopt a rights based approach to adolescent health, consistent with the Convention on the Rights of the Child which would include ensuring access to sex education for boys and girls and to confidential, accessible and youth friendly adolescent health services.

Children, in families or unaccompanied, women, especially those who were single or heads of households, adolescent girls, who were at risk of sexual violence, adolescent boys, who were often coerced into becoming child soldiers, and elderly and disabled persons all needed assistance.

Adolescent boys considered as adults within their own communities often leave them in order to earn an income. There are several examples, such as boys from Myanmar working in construction or on plantations in Malaysia, and Hazara boys from Afghanistan working in factories in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Adolescent health

Adolescent health

Adolescent health

ADOLESCENT FERTILITY RATE, 1995

Adolescent nonsense. All right.

Adolescent Health and Information Projects

Boys! Boys!

Boys, boys!

Now... boys, boys.

So we have the perpetual adolescent.

Girl and Adolescent Domestic Employees, 1992

We're neither of us adolescent, Charles.

Give up this ridiculous adolescent idea.

Wise guys... Boys, boys.

Yet adolescent refugees often cannot access education.

They're fine boys, fine boys.

Adolescent reproductive health problems have also attracted attention.

1996 Seminar on child and adolescent labour (Paraguay)

Round Table on Adolescent Reproductive Health and Rights

Moreover, a recent UNFPA thematic evaluation on adolescent reproductive health has provided impetus to strengthen government action to address adolescent reproductive health needs.

In sub Saharan Africa, 75 per cent of infected young people are female and in many high prevalence countries, adolescent girls are four to six times more likely than boys their age to be living with HIV AIDS.

It is also true that indicators concerning early adolescent pregnancy and first time maternal mortality among adolescent and young women have not yet decreased.

Boys in boys apos schools generally perform better in language than boys in coeducational schools

With regard to protection, it had a national child and adolescent protection system whose highest authority was the National Council for Child and Adolescent Rights.

Urges Governments to design and implement programmes to encourage and enable men and adolescent boys to adopt safe, informed and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour, and to use effectively methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV AIDS

Urges Governments to design and implement programmes to encourage and enable men and adolescent boys to adopt safe, informed and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour, and to use effectively methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV AIDS

Trafficking in boys predominantly involves Romanian boys, but includes large numbers of Polish and Czech boys.

Boys

Boys?

Boys.

Boys.

boys.

boys.

Boys!

Boys.

Boys!

Husn boys girls school Baqa a elementary boys school, Jordan

Sarah Jayne Blakemore The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain