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UNICEF unveils "Every Play for Every Child" platform at World Football Day event
Summary
At a United Nations commemoration of World Football Day, UNICEF announced a new global platform, Every Play for Every Child, to coordinate sport-based programs that advance child protection, education and health and to solicit public- and private-sector partners.
Lisonbee Qualta, UNICEF’s global strategic partnerships manager for sports and entertainment, announced the Every Play for Every Child platform during the United Nations General Assembly’s inaugural World Football Day commemoration at UN Headquarters in New York. Qualta described the platform as an effort to consolidate UNICEF’s sport-related programming and invite funding and partnerships from both public- and private-sector actors.
“Sport is also a right of every child,” Qualta said, citing Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framing principle for…
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