FWCF is a youth-led NGO promoting social justice for Jamaican children & youth since 2019 #FiWePickney 🖤💚💛
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Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
The UN is accepting applications for the 2026 Young Professionals Programme (YPP).
The YPP is a recruitment initiative for talented, highly qualified professionals to start a career with the UN.
More about the programme and eligibility requirements: careers.un.org/ypp?language=…
FWCF has submitted its Alternative Report on Jamaica’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to the UN Human Rights Committee.
Read and share the report 👉🏾 fiwechildren.org/HRC2026
Kemar's story is an illustration, but children in Jamaica are being used by gangs to hold and carry guns.
Fair sentencing weighs the facts of each case, not just the charge.
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
Here is the civil society shadow report to the UN Human Rights Committee reviewing Jamaica’s list of prior recommendations made in 2016. The state submitted its own report. Civil society provided responses and recommendations based on data and experiences of our target groups.
Don’t take our word for it, or anyone else’s. Read the full report for yourself: tr.ee/51XbPE
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
There’s no UN “case” against Jamaica. The UN Human Rights Committee is carrying out a routine review of Jamaica’s human rights record. Both the Government and civil society submitted reports. That’s how the process works.
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
Rights Groups JFJ and FWCF Welcome NSC Proposed Firearms Act Amendments
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Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
The Advocates’ Association of Jamaica is raising concern over the announcement of a proposed increase in the mandatory minimum sentence for illegal gun possession to 20 years.
Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/… #GLNRToday
Meet Envi Kid, our new environmental book for children ages 6–15! Explore the book and read or download your copy at fiwechildren.org.
@jamentrust @ForestryDeptJa
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
What does resilience, recovery and relief look like after Hurricane Melissa?
A few stakeholders got a sneak peek at our upcoming EU-funded report, “#HigherGround: Lessons from Hurricane Melissa for Resilience, Recovery, and Relief” during our roundtable review. Here’s what they had to say!
Join us on Wednesday, October 28, for the official report launch in partnership with the St. James Municipal Coperation.
🔗 RSVP now: capri-higherground.eventbrit…
#CAPRICaribbean #HurricaneMelissa #Resilience #Recovery @EUinJamaica @StJMCorporation
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
Take a look inside the new Child and Adolescent Wellness Centre at the Junction Health Centre, St. Elizabeth.Â
Bright, calm and designed with young people in mind, it is the first centre of its kind in the Southern Region. It offers assessment, counselling, psychiatric care and family support for children and adolescents from birth to 18, closer to home.
#HHRP #DoYourShare #MentalHealth
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Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
HIV in Jamaica: what’s fact, what’s fear, and who’s still being left out of care?
Jaevion Nelson [@jaevionn] of @UNAIDSCaribbean joins us tomorrow on #LetsTalkJustice, 1 to 2 p.m. on Nationwide 90FM. đź“»
🎬🍎 If you worked at Abbott Elementary, which teacher would you be?
Our pick? Ms. Teagues! Passionate about education, full of heart, and always trying her very best to make things work for every child.
So, who’s your teacher twin? Let’s hear it!
Lock in, besties! Are you a passionate youth advocate? We want YOU!
Fi We Children Foundation is inviting applications from passionate young people ages 13–25 across Jamaica who are ready to champion children’s rights and make a difference in their communities.
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
27 years in, and the mission hasn’t changed: a Jamaica where every person’s rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled.
Thank you to everyone who has stood with us since 1999. Here’s to the work ahead. #JFJ27
Did you know that under Jamaica’s Child Care and Protection Act, the detention of children is subject to legal safeguards and statutory review requirements.
Detention must be reviewed within the applicable timeframes, typically not exceeding 48 hours.
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
On International Day of the Girl Child, we’re talking about girls the system failed to protect.
Girls who need protection are labelled “uncontrollable” and locked away in correctional centres. After years of advocacy, the law was amended to end this, but the change still isn’t in force.
Bring it into force. #DayOfTheGirl
Fi We Children Foundation retweeted
Mental illness is not a crime. Yet some Jamaicans found unfit to plead have spent decades in prison without trial.
They belong in care, not cells. #WorldMentalHealthDay #JamaicansforJustice #MentalHealth
Lawyers who care about children’s rights — we’re looking at you. 👀⚖️
FWCF is inviting 2 Attorneys-at-Law to join our team and help advance child protection and advocacy.
⏰ Apply by Oct. 16, 2026. Link in bio.
