Olivia Harrison speaks to global UNICEF leaders and UNICEF Kid Power school in Boston

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In response to the urgent and growing crisis in Haiti, the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF will match all donations to UNICEF’s relief efforts for children impacted by Hurricane Matthew. All donations will be matched $1-for-$1 until Thursday at 11:59pm PT.
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Olivia Harrison speaks to global UNICEF leaders and UNICEF Kid Power school in Boston

Olivia Harrison visited Boston to address the 60th Annual Meeting of UNICEF National Committees and visit with children who participated in the groundbreaking UNICEF Kid Power
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Celebrating the 44th anniversary of the Concert for Bangladesh: George Harrison Fund for UNICEF invests in innovative program to promote fitness and save lives

August 1, 2015 marks the 44th anniversary of George Harrison’s groundbreaking Concert for Bangladesh, as well as 10 years since former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan approached the Harrison family

Celebrating the 44th anniversary of the Concert for Bangladesh: George Harrison Fund for UNICEF invests in innovative program to promote fitness and save lives
31 July 2015

August 1, 2015 marks the 44^th anniversary of George Harrison’s groundbreaking Concert for Bangladesh, as well as 10 years since former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan approached the Harrison family and created the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF to formalize UNICEF’s longstanding relationship with the Harrisons. In the tradition established by George and Ravi Shankar, the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF has supported programs in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Angola, Romania, the Horn of Africa and Burma. This year, the Fund brought critical aid to victims of the earthquake in Nepal and invested in a groundbreaking new movement powered by kids called UNICEF Kid Power.

Built for a new generation of global citizens, Kid Power uses the world’s first wearable-for-good to get kids moving by tapping into their inherent desire to help their peers. By joining Kid Power and getting more active, kids take action to fight global malnutrition with every move.

UNICEF Kid Power – Get Active. Save Lives. from UNICEF USAon Vimeo.

Learn More at: UNICEF Kid Power

To participate, kids wear Kid Power Bands, which measure their movement and unlock Kid Power Points. The more active they are, the more points they earn. Kid Power Points are then converted into funding by partners, which UNICEF deploys to deliver lifesaving packets of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to severely malnourished children. The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF is the founding partner of UNICEFKid Power and its generous support has allowed the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to pursue this 21st century approach to global citizenship.

Following a seed investment by the George Harrison Fund and a successful city-wide pilot in Sacramento, California, in October, 2014, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF launched Kid Power in New York, Boston and Dallas in March 2015. As of today more than 12,000 American 3^rd, 4th and 5th graders have joined the Kid Power movement. They have earned enough “Kid Power Points” to feed and save the lives of more than 1,260 kids in some of the world’s poorest countries.

In addition, Disney and Lucasfilm team up to launch Star Wars Force for Change and the second phase of this campaign focuses on mobilizing Star Wars fans to raise money for Kid Power. None of this would have been possible without this visionary investment by the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF.

There are plans to expand UNICEF Kid Power to 100,000 American students in 10 cities starting in March 2016. The hope is to eventually get 1,000,000 American kids moving to help save the lives of 1,000,000 kids worldwide.

Nepal

On April 25, 2015, a massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, the country’s deadliest in more than 80 years. Just a few weeks later on May 12, a second earthquake of 7.3 magnitude struck. More than 8,800 people died, nearly a third of them children. Another 22,309 people were injured and more than 450,000 people were displaced.

The morning of the quake, both UNICEF and the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF responded immediately. The Fund released $500,000 to UNICEF to provide life-saving aid to the more than 1.1 million children who were affected by the events.

This aid provided hundreds of thousands of people with clean water, sanitation facilities and hygiene kits within the first 48 hours. UNICEF set up over 182 Child-Friendly Spaces and 610 Temporary Learning Centers, where children could play and learn while their parents set about rebuilding their homes and lives.

It is a long road ahead for many in Nepal, but UNICEF, with the support of donors like the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, will be there as the people of Nepal work to build back better and stronger. UNICEF thanks the Harrison Family and the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF for their faith and action and their ongoing efforts to protect the health, safety and well.

Facebook ‘ignoring child safety risks’

Mark Bridge, Technology Correspondent

August 2 2018, 12:01am, The Times

Child safety campaigners believe reforms brought in by Facebook do not go far enoughJOSH EDELSON/AFP

Facebook has been accused of failing to tackle serious risks to children while introducing tools to help people limit their time on the site.

The company said it would present graphs to show users how long they were spending on the network and add optional alerts to warn them when they go over self-imposed time limits. Users can also mute notifications. Similar tools are being added to Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Steve Hatch, Facebook director for UK and Ireland, said: “We feel a responsibility to help ensure that time on Facebook is time well spent.”

However, Laura Randall, associate head of child safety online at the NSPCC, said that the changes did not address risks to young people, adding: “Time limits do not address the fact that there are still no consistent child safety standards in place. Apps, sites and games continue to allow violent and sexual content to be accessed by children and sexual predators are free to roam their platforms targeting and grooming young people.”

• Facebook has stopped “hundreds of thousands” of apps from accessing user data after developers failed to resubmit them for review following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is understood that many were defunct.

Department of Justice Announces Expansion of Program to Enhance Tribal Access to National Crime Information Databases

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Department of Justice Tribal Access Program Will Continue to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data To Solve Crimes and Strengthen Public Safety in Indian Country

The Department of Justice is pleased to announce expansion of the Tribal Access Program (TAP), a program providing federally recognized Tribes the ability to access and exchange data with the national crime information databases for both civil and criminal purposes.  

The department will accept applications from Aug. 1 to Oct. 1, 2018.  Interested Tribes may apply by using this link: www.justice.gov/tribal/tribal-access-program-fy-2019-application. Tribes that are selected for participation will be notified by Oct. 15, 2018, and deployment activities will begin shortly thereafter; deployment to all selected Tribes will be completed by Sept. 30, 2019.

“President Trump and Attorney General Sessions are committed to reducing violent crime in Indian Country,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. “Today’s announcement is another example of this commitment and the administration’s efforts to ensure Tribal police have access to the innovative tools and resources they need to ensure public safety and promote the rule of law.” 

“The Tribal Access Program has been instrumental in ensuring tribal protection orders are entered into federal criminal databases. This alerts law enforcement departments throughout the nation to their existence, and prevents covered individuals from illegally purchasing firearms. TAP also provides an easy platform for entering sex offender registrations into the National Sex Offender Registry. In short, it is a critical law enforcement and public safety tool for Indian country,” noted Woodrow Star, Chairman of the Law and Order Committee and Member of the Board of Trustees, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.   

TAP is funded by the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART), the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and for 2019, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).  Given the funding sources, eligible tribes must have a sex offender registry authorized by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, a law enforcement agency that is not a Bureau of Indian Affairs direct service agency, or will utilize the TAP system to assist in providing services to victims of crime.

Under TAP, Tribes have successfully begun entering information directly into the federal databases, resulting in nearly 600 sex offender registrations and over 550 sex offender check-ins, nearly 300 instances of data entry that would prohibit someone from being able to purchase a firearm, over 1000 orders of protection entered or modified and over 4,200 finger-print based record checks for civil purposes that include employment, tribal housing placement and personnel/volunteers who have regular contact with or control over Indian children.

For FY19, the Department of Justice offers TAP services through one of the following two methods:

• TAP-LIGHT:  The department provides software that provides full access (both query and entry capabilities) to national crime information databases such as National Criminal Information Center (NCIC), the Interstate Identification Index (III) and the International Justice and Public Safety Network (Nlets) for both criminal and civil purposes; and
• TAP-FULL: The department provides the same basic capabilities as TAP-LIGHT listed above, and also provides an additional hardware/software solution in the form of a kiosk-workstation that provides the ability to submit and query fingerprint-based transactions via FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) for both criminal and civil purposes.

Criminal agencies that may participate include law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, criminal courts, jails, and probation departments.  Civil agencies and programs that may participate include agencies whose staff/volunteers have contact with or control over Indian children; public housing agencies; child support enforcement agencies; Head Start programs; social service agencies that investigate allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children; civil courts that issue orders of protection, restraining orders, or other keep away orders and sex offender registration programs.

TAP supports Tribes in analyzing their needs for national crime information and provides appropriate solutions, including a state-of-the-art biometric/biographic kiosk workstation with capabilities to process finger and palm prints, take mugshots and submit records to national databases, as well as the ability to access Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) systems for criminal and civil purposes through the Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Information Network.  TAP, which is managed by DOJ’s Chief Information Officer, provides specialized training and assistance for participating Tribes, including computer-based training, and on-site instruction, as well as a 24x7 Help Desk.  

By September 2018, TAP will be deployed to 47 tribes (both TAP-FULL and TAP-LIGHT) with over 180 Tribal criminal justice and civil agencies participating. 

For more information about TAP, click here + www.justice.gov/tribal/tribal-access-program-tap. 

For a list of the 47 Tribes currently participating in tap, click here.  + www.justice.gov/file/1001376/download. 

Topic(s): 

Indian Country Law and Justice

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Office of Tribal Justice

Press Release Number: 

18-1009

Updated August 2, 2018

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