[LONDON, 18 September 2008] - The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) has just launched the latest edition of its Review 'Children's Right to the City'.In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population will be...
This report explores adults' and children's perceptions of what constitues child sexual abuse in two districts of Mozambique and the mechanisms for reporting and resolving abuse cases. based on a series of focus group discussions and individual...
[29 April 2008] - Children who travel alone across southern Africa have told how they have been beaten by authorities, had their possessions confiscated and been vulnerable to sexual abuse. In Our Broken Dreams: Child Migration in Southern Africa, a...
[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday....
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been ratified by 193 States. 1 Ratification requires States to undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures to implement children’s rights as recognised in the...
[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the...
BACGROUND TO THE PROJECT1. OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED RESULTSCIDA's Action Plan on Child Protection, launched in June 2001, included a CAN$ 2 million research fund established to explore the area of child protection. The Fund's primary objective was to...
Summary: Report submitted to the Third Committee of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly which will open on 18 September 2007.This year's Report of the Secretary-General on the Status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is...
Summary: The 'Legislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child' is the result of ten years of work by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden.Please be aware that this document, which comes...
L'Agence Canadienne de Développement International (ACDI) a lancé un Plan d'Action sur la protection de l'enfant en juin 2001. Le Plan d'Action comprenait l'attribution de 2 millions de dollars pour un projet de...
